Intentional Actions Quotes

There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.

If the end does not justify the means, what does?

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

When it comes to everybody else's thing and their lane and their timing, I'm never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody's biggest mistake if that's their intention.

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love.

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.

One thing people are gonna have to understand about Trump: He's not stupid; he's not a bull in a china shop. You may end up disagreeing with him profoundly. You may not end up not liking him at all before this is over. I don't know. But he's not dumb, and he's not ignorant, and it's not that he doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing and is doing it for a reason.

I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

Sir, I cannot look into men’s minds; I can only judge of men’s motives by their conduct.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a lot of denial, and denial is always dangerous even if all of your intentions are good and all your preparations are good. When you make a choice you're denying an infinite number of other choices.

Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics.