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.

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,...

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.

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...