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.

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

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.

Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform

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...

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda’s intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

You don’t just have people who wake up in the morning and say, “What evil things can I do today, because I’m Mr. Evil?” People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody...

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

Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.

You will attach to me as long as I meet your needs.

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

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,...