Quotes About Intentions

God is pleased by your intentions, but not by your deeds

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

It wasn't that a white person couldn't comprehend what it was like to be in her skin, but Jay, in his unyielding American optimism, refused to see that she came from a culture where good intentions and clear talk wouldn't cover all wounds. It didn't work that way with her parents, anyway. They were brokenhearted Koreans—that wasn't Jay's fault, but how was he supposed to understand their kind of anguish?

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

All targets feed on your desires. Because without wanting anything, then you will have no target in mind.

Good and evil have come out of the same thread. Simply, because all demons were once considered angels. They use the same powers, but differ on intentions.

The genius may appear selfish, but most of his intentions are always innocent and pure.

Visions are meant to be shared by all, to keep moving forward and making your intentions known to all.

So many mistakes. So many bad choices. So many tragedies and hurts brought to innocent people with the best of intentions or with no intentions at all. It was so hard to be human. It was so hard to be alive.

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

I am resolved on a career of reparation,' he said. 'And have you? Made amends?' 'It is one of the tragedies of life, that life keeps getting in the way of good intentions. I've made some. I'll make more.

When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving.

When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding us or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving.

Technology is amoral, and inventions are routinely deployed in ways their creators neither intend nor sanction.

That has been the pattern again and again: With the best of intentions, pro-life conservatives have taken some positions in reproductive health that actually hurt those whom they are trying to help—and that result in more abortions.

If an equilibrium was invariably elusive in the real world, Hayek argued, then the a priori assumptions that theoretical economists make about the operation of an economy, or a market, tending toward an equilibrium would always fall short. An equilibrium can be predicted only if the intentions of each of the participants is known, and that is impossible both in theory and in practice.

Humans are tribalistic hypocrites who judge their enemies by their actions but themselves by their intentions.

The liberal is always mistaken because he does not distinguish between the consequences he attributes to his intentions and the consequences his intentions effectively include.

The reactionary invented the dialogue upon observing differences among men and the variety of their intentions. The democrat engages in a monologue, because humanity expresses itself through his mouth.

Serving the truth comes down simply to living life from the place of positive intentions. It means doing the right thing even when everything and everyone in society is telling you to ignore, supress, or abandon the path of nonviolence, understanding and care.

When such patterns are triggered in therapy, it gives the patient a chance to look at them and change them, for as we saw in chapter 4, "Acquiring Tastes and Loves," positive bonds appear to facilitate neuroplastic change by triggering unlearning and dissolving existing neuronal networks, so the patient can alter his existing intentions.

Amid all this, somehow, the United States of America suffered a major nonmilitary defeat. It lost no important war, yet it did not survive the Pox. Perhaps it simply lost sight of what it once intended to be, then blundered aimlessly until it exhausted itself. What is left of it now, what it has become, I do not know.