#intentions

There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will not do it." The other, "I wish to do well, but I have not as much power as I have will; it is this which holds me back." The first fills Hell, the second Paradise. ↗

— Francis de Sales

#intentions #religion #will #religion

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds. ↗

— David Horowitz

#among #best #best intentions #chief #deeds

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#filled #good #good intentions #goodwill #hell

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#good #good intentions #hell #intentions #merely

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions! ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#against #always #assistance #beauty #collaborator

Intentions count in your actions. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#count #intentions #your

You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one. ↗

— S.B. Redd

#female-stalkers #fiction #intentions #relationships #romance

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. ↗

— George Byron

#i #i am #intentions #little #my own

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ↗