Intentions Quotes
Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.
It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.
...best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.
A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
Some of the worst things are done with the best intentions, Petra, ” August said. “You shouldn’t have done this to me.
And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.
Everyone is good at heart. We all do things with the greatest of intentions and most of the time we do it for selfish reasons. Myself included.
Why did you tell me all this?""So if I die, you'd know not to come looking for me when you get to heaven.
We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.
May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family.
And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. That's where we're going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon
Put some action on your good intentions!
If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or we can use them to hide our true intentions.
Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life.
It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.
Just saying an intention and leaving it at that will not necessarily result in an outcome, if there is a stronger, more primal belief behind the scenes.
... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.
It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.
And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.