#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. ↗

— Criss Jami

#criticism #envy #good-intentions #inspirational #intentions

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

#acts #almighty #alone #before #god

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. ↗

— Chuck Berry

#earnest #how #intentions #learn #much

The ignorant Looker-on can't imagine what the Limner means by those seemingly rude Lines and Scrawls, which he intends for the Rudiments of a Picture, and the Figures of Mathematick Operation are Nonsense, and Dashes at a Venture, to one uninstructed in Mechanicks. We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments; and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

#design

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#intentions #results #art

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#ironic #wise-words #design

I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#relationships #life

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#good #i #intentions #out #sorry

If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent. ↗

— John Conyers

#adding #build #clarify #confidence #country

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell. ↗

— Ben Harper

#best #cause #deeds #extension #far