Quotes about Intentions
Passion is the fuel in the engine of your purpose. It's your "want-to." It's what keeps you going when mundane tasks bore you or difficult ones dissuade you. Passion is what keeps you moving in the direction your best intentions want you to go.
— Priscilla Shirer
Our lives are shaped by others literally from birth, and even the best of intentions can result in the most unexpected of hurts.
— Ravi Zacharias
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