Quotes About Intentions

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

I mean, hell, when I pitched 'Basketball Wives' I was still married and I had no intentions of being on the show, I just was producing it and creating it, and that was it.

At the end of the day, if you feel like you're a good person, and your intentions are good, then that's all that matters.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.

In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them.

Be kind to people, just be kind. You never know what other people are going through, so whenever you can, however you can, be kind. Be true to yourself. When I say that, I mean just live life the best way that you can, honestly, decently. You won't be perfect. You'll make mistakes, maybe hurt people, and people will hurt you. But that's okay as long as you can know that everything you did, you did with the right intentions.

There was actually a time when people wanted to give Hitler the benefit of the doubt as to his intentions (in 1935, Winston Churchill thought it possible that Hitler might "go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation").

There was actually a time when people wanted to give Hitler the benefit of the doubt as to his intentions (in 1935, Winston Churchill thought it possible that Hitler might 'go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation').

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

The truly fortunate person has created his own good fortune through good habits of the soul, good intentions, and good actions.

Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.

nunca se sabe ao certo quando os homens incorrem em erro, pois muitas das suas ações, que nos parecem perversas a primeira vista, são feitas com boas intenções, ou ao menos sem más intenções. É necessário conhecer inúmeros pormenores e circunstâncias antes de poder julgar com alguma segurança a conduta alheia.

37. I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Ogni volta che vedi uno compiere un'azione, se ti è possibile, prendi l'abitudine di chiederti: «A che mira costui facendo questo?». E comincia proprio da te, esaminando per primo te stesso.

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.

but they mean well, I remind myself. Is that ever a convincing excuse when there's blood on the carpet?

A man always has two reasons for the things he does—a good one and the real one.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.