Quotes About Intentions

Don't do wrong things for the right reasons, and don't do right things for the wrong reasons.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

We think our parents are in charge, right? Like they know what they're doing? But the truth is, they're making it up as they go along, just like we are. Just like everyone. If we judge them by their worst mistakes, they're all, like, gargantuan failures. Maybe you should try judging your mom by her intentions, by whether she, like, loves you and is doing her best.

Good intentions, talented players, everyone trying hard. Just bad casting.

They self-righteously advocate public policies that obligate future generations' labor and resources to their own real and perceived benefit, empowering governmental abuse via social engineering and economic depredation. They disguise the delinquency as compassionate and premised on good intentions, often insisting their objectives will improve the prospects of those most severely burdened by them—"the children.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

When somebody says, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you," it means they've got other things to do first.

I nurture very good intentions about you. May you die in peace.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

I have my own goals in my head in terms of things that would be great to happen.

If your main goal is to show that your heart is in the right place, then your heart is not in the right place.

Is the primary motive behind your appearance to please God or to please yourself? Do you want to be charming and beautiful for God's glory in order to draw attention to Him, or for your own glory in order to draw attention to yourself?

Just a heads-up, when a murderbot stands there looking to the left of your head to avoid eye contact, it's probably not thinking about killing you, it's probably frantically trying to come up with a reply to whatever you just said to it.

intentions in the world, cannot fix what is wrong

For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are.

The road of good intentions is paved with what were foreseeable troubles. Thinking long and hard before you take the leap will save you from having to think long and hard about all the trouble you just signed on for. Warren

A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant

Sometimes it seemed the timing of the entire world was off, our intentions coming too soon or too late, life crowding up to blur our vision, and only later when the dust settles can we see our missteps.

Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, and seeds become history.

Su abuela siempre le aconsejaba que no fuera demasiado explícita al formular sus deseos, porque a veces la mejor solución es una que no se le ocurriría nunca.

they did not yet have control of the Senate. But elections for one-third of the Senate's members were coming up in early 1879. And despite the Senate's reputation as a bastion of conservative power, the republicans intended to win.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.