Quotes About Intentions

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

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

I dont think people are wrong to be concerned about the world's intentions toward them. There's a lot of bad news out there and some of it is coming to your house. Drowning

You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality.

You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions & your intentions create your reality.

Tú creas tus pensamientos, tus pensamientos crean tus intenciones y tus intenciones crean tu realidad

The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Ultimatums have negative connotations for many because they're often used by bullies and abusers, who tend to be comfortable pushing their partners' backs against a wall, demanding that he or she choose this or that, all or nothing. But when used by emotionally healthy people with good intentions, ultimatums offer a respectful and loving way through an impasse that will sooner or later destroy a relationship on its own anyway.

Your ultimatum is simple. It's fair. And it's stating your own intentions, not what you hope theirs will be.

You know my biggest fear is this: That all my hard work. All my good intentions. All my studying. Have been nothing more than a building of a wall between me and life.

She'd learned now that the only way to write a list was to finish with something you actually wanted to do.

Strength is the ability to obviously to others guide your intentions and not take chances or flexibility with that which you originally aimed to fortify with your own inner divine love.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

The pathway to hell was paved with good intentions, but what about the wrongs committed for the right reasons? Were they included as well? Life had taught him that anything that starts wrong, ends wrong. In this case, he supposed that only time and its unpredictable mercies would tell. - Percy

You can't bargain with God, Alex. You can state your good intentions, you can imagine the life you want, but you can't negotiate with Him. He holds all the cards.

She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all.

He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility

Good grief. Are you flirting with me? Honey, my intentions are way past flirting. Your intentions could get you a knee in the groin. Nick grinned. At least your mind's on the right body part.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted with issues like child care.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.