Wrong Intention Quotes

#1. Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

E. Stanley Jones

#2. Those who consider the inessential to be essential
And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential,
Living in the field of wrong intention

Gautama Buddha

#3. No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

Janet Jackson

#4. Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.

Alice Walker

#5. I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

Edward Snowden

#6. The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#7. How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.

Anne Rice

#8. A wrong choice thwarts God's original intention

Sunday Adelaja

#9. If necessary, give up; if necessary, step back; if necessary, go back; if necessary, change your direction; if necessary, switch your lights off! Do whatever is necessary!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#11. If you are entering into a permanent relationship based on the intention of change, you are on the wrong track.

Karl Pillemer

#12. The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

Samuel Johnson

#13. Remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Accountability is not for the intention but for the deed. You must continue to choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.

Thomas S. Monson

#14. I've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!

Gwen Stefani

#15. I'll be here when you return."
"I fixed my door. You'll need a key."
"I'll take good care of it."
"What if I won't give it to you?"
"Then I'll break the door again."
"This dormitory makes me feel so safe.

Stephanie Perkins

#16. Don't think I have any intention of caressing your cheek and saying I was wrong," he said softly as I watched the life ebb out of him. "I will not weep and wonder what might have been. I'm sure you understand.

Oliver Bowden

#17. It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

Daisaku Ikeda

#18. When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

Aldous Huxley

#19. We the people have never agreed on much of anything. ... [D]isunity is the through-line in the national plot. Not necessarily as a failing, but as a free people's privileged.

Sarah Vowell

#20. An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

Ayn Rand

#21. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

T.F. Hodge