Quotes about intentions

Good intentions but bad results bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.

The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think and our intentions govern what we think.

You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.

God is a witness to anything done in secret.

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or a new experience to discover the truth. People who lie to themselves for different reasons are oftentimes trying to avoid something or escape blame for things they have done.

Intentions of a man reflects in his actions.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness.

You have two options whether to speed up or block your soul’s intentions. You have a choice: to act out of selfish ego or as a loving soul.

The mind that does inner intentions (bhaav-mann) is the ‘charge’ mind. The mind that is getting exhausted (dravya-mann) is the ‘discharge’ mind. Bhaav-mann creates the worldly life. Dravya-mann brings an end to the worldly life. When egoism goes away, bhaav-mann vanishes.

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good,’“ he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. ‘“Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.

Truth can only be found in a person's record of actions, not their list of intentions.

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

Once your intentions are real and wise, helpful and positive, keep going forward. Never ever give up!

Good intentions are the best business.

Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.

Religion means life. Religion means true service in love to man and God. Religion means what ought to be understood within the confines of the laws of God. Religion means discipline. Religion means uplifting the falling. Religion means caring for they that suffer in latent and understanding why Christ came to die for us. Religion means development and expansion within the scope of the laws of God that safeguards life and protects the creations of the Creator. Religion means understanding what ou

Good intentions do not always suffice.

How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.

Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.

If your intentions are good, nothing bad can happen.

They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill.

If we pray we shall put an end to evil intentions.

When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ("Trompe le pied.")

Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.

Thinking too much about the future, especially in terms of wants and desires, constricts us. First of all, it does little, if anything to achieve goals. Secondly, consider, that what you think you may want tomorrow may not actually be what you want tomorrow. You are ever-changing and constantly evolving. It’s OK to want better for the future, but don’t expect for the future. Just as introspection is very challenging, so is knowing what is in fact good or best for us and the path there. We may th

Avoiding awareness of our own reality is often an attempt to deny thoughts, desires, or intentions that we feel will threaten or contradict the needs of those with whom we feel strong attachment. We instinctively hide feelings and thoughts we assume would be threatening to other people, and might cause them to leave us. . . People who learned early in life to adapt to parental needs to an extent that we were unable to focus on our own developmental tasks and needs will often continue to play out

Even if you communicate sincerely and your intentions are upright, if people don’t have trust, they speculate your every move...

Intentions, whether good or bad, that don’t reflect the words and actions are only meant to fulfill personal goals.

He could have been invisible and it wouldn’t have made a difference to them. He didn’t care, so long as he felt at ease, which was his original intention. He wasn’t there to make friends, nor did he want to.

Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people whose lifestyles, beliefs, or predilections we dislike, we add to the emotional filth of hostility and make the world feel a little less safe for the folks we’re genuinely trying to help.

I grow more and more intrigued by this as I write: how words, even the most carefully chosen, can mean such different things from one person to another, so that others might think about what I write in ways I did not intend at all.

Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.

For the shadows to stop growing. For people to stop being angry.

There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but there is everything wrong with dreaming without any intention to make the dream a reality.

You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one.

Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them.

I think sometimes, despite our good intentions and wise choices, something's are up to fate and we learn to play our part the best we can.

If God had good intentions, he would have rewarded the sex.

Let your thoughts, intentions, imaginations, and dreams fly under a clear blue sky with a spring breeze floating like a butterfly from flower to flower. See the beauty of mankind. Enjoy the nectar of life. It will shift your awareness to a higher consciousness.

I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.

And good intentions? These scared him the most: people with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for.

Do not get down on your knees to pray just to show God that you always remember him. Instead stay on your feet, and always do as he would do in place of him.

Make sure that you intentionally bring out results and positive products and the world will celebrate you.

If you don’t want to just live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

You must be intentional and decisive about what you want to achieve during your solitude time.

If you know who you are, this knowledge will attract people in all types of situation and circumstances to support your intentions and ideas

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked up to. Young and upcoming poets must approach their craft with an almost angelic perspective. So many writers are missing a condensed fusion in their writing, they condescend to their audience, the truth is not spoken in their work, they gabble, their words seem to make a hot fuss on the page.

A good intention feeds no one.

Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass.

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

Everyone is good at heart. We all do things with the greatest of intentions and most of the time we do it for selfish reasons. Myself included.

what makes you my friend if you doubt my intentions?

The gap between intentions and actions is character.

He who don’t know what envy can do shall always do what envy can do

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor.

We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.

Our being is more important than our doing. We are human beings, acting as though we are human doings. In our frenzied doing, we are often not conscious of our state of being. Yet our deepest impact comes from our state of being because it is at the root of our intentions, our choices, and our behavior.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or we can use them to hide our true intentions.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

Put some action on your good intentions!

This man was being kept alive by those machines. Someone was trying to help him. They were just trying to help. All the horrible things we've seen are just people trying to help, aren't they? To make the work a little easier, and the world a little easier for people to live in. And it turned into a nightmare.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.

There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will not do it." The other, "I wish to do well, but I have not as much power as I have will; it is this which holds me back." The first fills Hell, the second Paradise.

Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by his image. Images can be bought or produced by any Hollywood producer, marketing team or fleet of stylists. Even kids know how to wear amazing costumes for Halloween. Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

Your thoughts don't matter if they are not converted into actions.

They don’t see what they’re doing. The only thing they see are their intentions.

Just saying an intention and leaving it at that will not necessarily result in an outcome, if there is a stronger, more primal belief behind the scenes.

Intentions are nothing

My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.

Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.

Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.

The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

When you have the right intention, the right opportunity will open the door.

Your intentions have more impact than your actions.

Sometimes you welcome people only for them to show you how unwelcoming you are. Sometimes you generously help people only for them to show you how extravagant and evil you are. Sometimes you teach people only for them to show you how ignorant you are. Sometimes you open your doors to people only for them to show you how dirty your room is. Sometimes you make way for people only for them to block your ways. Sometimes you draw people closer to you only for them to teach you the real meaning of bet

Never lose hope. Never forget the power of intentions and desires.

The power of your intentions has a greater impact on your life than your actions.

Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different.

People with inferiority intentions do not go after their dreams not because they can't go; but because their passion is not strong enough to turn the wheels of success...and there they go, becoming losers, defeated by their obstacles!

The Maker knows the motives of men's hearts.

Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions to reach them!

You can't get what you want, if the intentions are solely directed for self-benefits.