Quotes About Intentions

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

These days, doctors care about rigorous evidence, because they know that bad advice can kill, and good intentions save nobody.

What do I really want for myself? What do I really want for others? What do I really want for the relationship?

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Villains are always the hero in their own story. Villains always have a reason for what villainy they get up to.

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain," Chakotay said with equal certainty. "So is the road to peace," Cambridge observed.

It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.

Yes, it's funny isn't it. You try to do what's best for the people you love, and you just end up in trouble for your efforts.

It is right to look for someone's "real" intentions after his ostensible intentions have been shown to be incompatible with the actual data of his situation and behaviour. But simply disregarding his explicit reasons so as to impose your own alternative explanation without giving him a fair hearing is not acceptable.

We must defend ourselves according to our opponents' ability, not their intentions.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Para sa akin, basta manliligaw, malinis ang hangarin. Bakit ka ba liligawan ng lalaki kung meron siyang masamang balak? Kung katawan ko lang ang habol, madadaan naman sa simpleng usapan 'yun.

It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

I realize with regret that my report is not as complete as it should be," she wrote, "and had fully intended to do better, but we are told that good intentions make excellent paving stones.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.

Good intentions are not the whole story. You must also pay attention.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Am I to admire a man who injures me in an awkward and mistaken attempt to protect me, and to despise a man who to earn a good income performs for me some great and lasting service?

Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.

No matter how strange it may look, most people are actually trying to be helpful.* That

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

The heart can be a mysterious organ, the heart and its movements. Dark, the Spanish call it. The dark heart, el oscuro cotazón. Are you sure you are not just a little dark-hearted, Paul, despite your many good intentions?

the universe is not plagued by intentions and purpose.