Intentions Quotes

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.

Let goodness go with the doing.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

He is dead now, but he meant well.

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.

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

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.

Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

We are not the firstWho with best meaning have incurred the worst