Quotes about Intentions
Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions had miscarried, and bad ones had not improved.
— Joseph Heller
It is not what you do that impresses God; He is concerned with the why behind what you do. Ask God to reveal your motives to you and to change any that are not pure.
— Joyce Meyer
Concentrating on the evil things you are doing will never help you do the good things that you desire to do.
— Joyce Meyer
One of the ingredients of forming good habits and breaking bad ones is focusing on what you want to do and not on what you want to stop doing.
— Joyce Meyer
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed by them.
— James Garlow
But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.
— Dorothy Sayers
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
— St. Augustine
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
— Henry David Thoreau
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
— Mike Pence
I had been heaping up my devotions before God, fasting, praying, &c. pretending, and indeed really thinking sometimes, that I was aiming at the glory of God; whereas I never once truly intended it, but only my own happiness.
— David Brainerd
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.
— Joyce Meyer