Quotes About 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.

The first thing every neophyte fight must understand is that God, whatever he is, has nothing in common with humankind, and that he remains so far away as to be completely inaccessible to the human senses. The same is true of his intentions. At no point will people ever learn what he is up to.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions.

There are no villains who doesn't have his reasons.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

People don't enter conversations, work or social, with the same intentions. You must understand and cater to that.

the fundamental attribution error is the tendency of human beings to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviors of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, while attributing their own negative or frustrating behaviors to environmental factors.

La vita non si scrive con le parole, disse il mostro. Si scrive con le azioni. Quello che si pensa non conta. La sola cosa importante è ciò che si fa.

This might seem perverse. How can good lead to evil? One thing to keep in mind here is that we are interested in beliefs and motivations, not what's good in some objective sense. So the idea isn't that evil is good; rather, it's that evil is done by those who think they are doing good.

We rarely do anything with on single motive.

Muddleheadedness has always been the sovereign force in human affairs—a force far more potent than malevolence or nobility. It lubricates our hurtful impulses and ties our best intentions in knots. It blunts our wisdom, misdirects our compassion, clouds whatever insights into the human condition we manage to acquire. It is the chief artisan of the unintended consequences that constitute human history.

There is little need of mixing motives; human motives are always mixed, and what matters is what God makes of what the individual does, rather than the motives which lead one to do it.

The road to hell is always paved with good intentions.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

Trust is contingent on the evidence which one party provides the others of his true, concrete intentions; it cannot exist if that party's words do not coincide with their actions. To say one thing and do another—to take one's own word lightly—cannot inspire trust. To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

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

Some will tell you all you need is religion. They are wrong. You can go to church, mosque or synagogue ten times a day, pray hard and read the Scriptures as often as possible, give generous alms, and visit holy cites weekly. None of that can stop demons from rising in you, if you harbor jealousy or evil intentions toward your neighbour or fellow human.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say health care; that's an intention, not an objective.

Rather, in discussions of books we should cast characters not in terms of stable character traits, but in terms of internal states, feelings, intentions, contexts, and change.

material motivations for murder (in fact, I contend that they were secondary to ideological motives).

They could hear again the gathering whispers, the swooshes and squeals, the cracks, almost as if the fire were questioning its own intentions and the woods were answering: 'We have been waiting for you our whole lives.

O LORD, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this desire forever in the intentions of the hearts of Your people, and direct their hearts toward You.

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.