Quotes About Intentions

A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.

I've learned that the more I streamline what my actual tasks are and where I'd like to direct my energy, as opposed to where I let my energy go in an unaware state of mind, the more energy I have to place where my intentions are. Boundaries are good! Use them and know where they are.

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the road to heaven is paved with relentless faith.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

People hurt each other. That's how it works. At least you were trying to do something good. Not everyone can say that much.

Nothing shatters the reality of our good intentions like reality.

He tells people that they can no more expect justice in the afterlife than in the mortal plane, but he doesn't do this to dissuade them from worshipping God; on the contrary, he encourages them to do so. What he insists on is that they not love God under a misapprehension, that if they wish to love God, they be prepared to do so no matter His intentions. God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.

We tend to worry more about the "what" of behavior than the "why".

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

It's a woman's right to know a man's intentions upfront. Because, once you get emotionally attached to a man and you sleep with him, it's too late.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

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.

A great warrior must always search for the enemy's intentions and guard his own.

The Emperor and his ministers might dance Western dances and even, in violation of traditional Japanese propriety, smile Western smiles. But their underlying and deadly earnest aim was always to wipe the smiles off European faces.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

The people are more honest in their intentions than the nobles are, because the latter want to oppress the people whereas the people want only not to be oppressed.

Actions - not thoughts or intentions - were the way to judge others.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.