Quotes About Intentions

With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

Our must-haves and deal-breakers are the "what," when they should be the "why.

How do you come to understand that what people intended for evil, God intended for good?

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

Who we are is about not what we do, but why we tell ourselves we do it.

Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I

What's left unfinished? What is it that you haven't done yet, that you need to do before you leave this life?

When we try to love we are not actually trying to undertake a single endeavor; rather, we are trying to do a whole range of different, and sometimes not very compatible, things simultaneously.

The truth is we are defined by our actions, not by our intentions.

Maybe there were no villains in my mother's story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.

Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in light of our intentions, which are invisible to others," said philosopher J. G. Bennett, "while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are all that's visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day." And

Psychologist William James said, That which holds our attention determines our action. In other words, your behavior follows your attitude. The two cannot be separated. As author LeRoy Eims says, How can you know what is in your heart? Look at your behavior.

If you desire to mine the gold of good intentions in others, then forgiveness is essential. And it's rarely a one-time thing. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was right when he said, "Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

And remember, it is with the attitude with which you judge others that you will also be judged. If you mine the gold of good intentions in your relationship with others, then people will more likely do the same for you.

People naturally see themselves in the light of their intentions, but they measure others according to their actions.

If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best

Saying I love you does not necessarily mean I do love you, but I have plans for you.

When your flaws are stitched together with good intentions, your flaws make you beautiful.

Joyful people succeed, joyful people empower, joyful people inspire. Empower yourself with inspired intentions and allow yourself to succeed at all you do.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.