Quotes About Intentions

The great questions then become: What are your goals? What purposes are you aiming at? Where do you want to end up at the end of the day?

Every major power has some widely publicized justification for its procurement and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction, often including a reptilian reminder of the presumed character and cultural defects of potential enemies (as opposed to us stout fellows), or of the intentions of others, but never ourselves, to conquer the world.

Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.

But promises are sometimes no more than good intentions, and good intentions can easily go astray.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

The Wizard's Second Rule? What is that? Is it in the archives? Any student of magical lore should know it. The greatest harm can result from the best intentions. ...

And these are your reasons, my lord? Do you think I have others? said Lord Vetinari. My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent. Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

what people mean to do and what is done are two different things

While evidence says that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, they're probably all on first steps.

There's nothing more terrible than someone out to do the world a favor.

Deeds done from bad motives remain everlastingly tainted.

Nobody sees themselves as being an evil person or doing something for a bad reason. There's always something that justifies it to themselves.

Evil to him who evil thinks,....

Listen, my timing might be bad, but my intentions are good.

Does it count for anything that I just told you I love you?" Gable asked. I considered this briefly before deciding that it didn't. "Not really. Not when I know you don't mean it.

While to-dos serve as a useful collection of our best intentions, they also tyrannize us with trivial, unimportant stuff that we feel obligated to get done—because it's on our list. Which is why most of us have a love-hate relationship with our to-dos.

I'd get bored with myself if I was married to me, so it only makes sense that Lisa might occasionally be bored—or at least grow weary—of living with me. But God delights in both of us. God appreciates our quirks and understands our hearts' good intentions even when they might be masked by incredibly stupid behavior.

Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.

Oh come on, smile. Lisa, Jack... being bisexual is hardly a crime. Best of both worlds, isn't it?' And Ianto pushed her away. 'No,Gwen. No, really it's bloody not. It's the worst of any world because you don't really belong anywhere, because you are never sure of yourself ot those around you. You can't trust in anyone, their motives or their intentions. And because of that, you have, in a world that likes its shiny labels, no true identity.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the Earth are the means by which you evolve. At each moment you choose the intentions that will shape your experiences and those things upon which you will focus your attention. These choices affect your evolutionary process. This is so for each person. If you choose unconsciously, you evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you evolve consciously.