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

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn’t stick to what the director’s intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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,...

There are times in relationships, when we blow it. In spite of our best intentions, we wrong others. Our jealousy makes us feel inferior. Our own wounds cause us to act irrationally. Our insecurities lead...

It seems it doesn’t pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.

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

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

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

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.

We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions.

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...

Intentions count in your actions.

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.

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

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.

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

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...