… in art nothing is more secondary than the author’s 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.

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

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...

The consequences of giving up on your dreams are bitter than the causes of your intentions to give up. Don’t give up!

You always want to win. But we went into the jamboree with the intentions of looking at some different rotations.

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...

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.

what makes you my friend if you doubt my intentions?

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

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...

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

It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.

If your intentions are sincere, then do not think what people will say.

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...

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...

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

Intentions alone amount to nought. It’s in action, not inaction that we can become all we can be

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

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

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

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....

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Count the deed, not the thought.

Noise is the art of talking without walking

Hell is paved with good intentions.

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

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

The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression....

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

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

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...

Intentions of a man reflects in his actions.

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

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

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.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world’s greatest events are not produced, they happen.

The gap between intentions and actions is character.

Having good intentions isn’t enough when actions fail; you also need some bad intentions so that you look competent.

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

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

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

Put some action on your good intentions!

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

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.

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

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...

The word God can mean whatever you believe it to mean, for me it is the conscious stream of life from which we all come, and to which we can stayconnected throughout our lives as...

Good intentions might sound nice, but it’s positive actions that matter.

I don’t have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.