Quotes About Intentions

THE REALITY: You are not getting what you want because your intentions are mixed, unclear, or contrary to what you say you want. When you clarify your intentions, your desired results will follow.

Dharma thus has nothing to with rules or obligations. It has to do with intent and caring for the other, be it your kingdom or your family.

At the beginning of a new year, many people have nothing better to do than to make a list of bad deeds and resolve from now on—how many such "from-now-ons" have there already been!—to begin with better intentions, but they are still stuck in the middle of their paganism.

To be sure, there were attempts at translating the philosophy that was written in Greek into other languages – the presumed intention being to implant it in the cultures of the target languages – but such attempts, in the end, did not produce the intended results.

Action expresses priorities.

We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

Sometimes I wondered if we had rushed into getting married because we were both trying to prove something to the other and maybe even to ourselves. But then I think no, we truly did love each other. We truly did have the best of intentions. It, we, just weren't meant to be.

Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.

Our intentions have always been good - the best." "That's what the road to hell is paved with.

It is not enough to do good things and live a righteous life. God expects us to have pure motives and a sincere heart.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

We believe ourselves to be motivated by self-interest and yet our lives are devoted to aims which are not our own

Inimene on suur oma kavatsustes, kuid nõrk nende teostamises. Selles peitubki tema armetus ja võlu.

ÄŒovek je u namerama uvek veliki, ali ne i u ostvarivanju.

I didn't understand what he was doing, what he wanted from me. Because in my experience, people wanted something from each other. To use them, to gain friendship, for a romantic relationship. I didn't think he had any of those three as his motivation, and it was like a Rubik's Cube that I kept turning around and around with no solution

If an angel out of heaven Gives you something else to drink, Thank him for his kind intentions; Go and pour them down the sink.

I nodded. She had a point. A point that I fully intended to ignore. My questions had never been about trying to save myself in the first place. I just wanted to know what variables I had to work with in terms of methods of triggering and avoiding elimination.

Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by our intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by our intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you. 'I intended to bring you flowers, but I didn't.' 'I meant to finish this work on time.' 'I was going to be there for your birthday …

But miracles are not expected and mostly do not happen. Mr. Adams did not turn into a Belton, nor did his daughter. The aboriginal Hogglestock was deep in them; they conceived a slightly suspicious attitude to unknown people, ready to heave half-bricks; but they had also seen and admired another world, and could feel fairly at ease in it when sure that its intentions were good.

He had, in the past, wanted to be kind, and, as ever, had supplied the wrong sort of kindness.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.