“With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.”

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

Bad decisions, good intentions.

I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

I’ve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

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