“Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.”
Source: Temple of the Winds
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“Age carries with it a double load of guilt”
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 69 (Vintage 2003)
“Let each carry their own guilt and there will be no guilty ones.”
Lleve cada uno su culpa y no habrá culpables.
Voces (1943)
“It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.”
Letter to Robert E. Sherwood (1946)
As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, Steve Deger and Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 525
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“Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.”
This has sometimes been paraphrased: "My failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent".
1870s, Eighth State of the Union Address (1876)
Context: I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.
Helen Burns to Jane (Ch. 8)
Jane Eyre (1847)
“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.”
“When grace moves in… guilt moves out”
Source: Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions