Do you Judge people by their actions or good intentions?

Answer 1

Actions.
A good intention without a correct action is not an intention at all.

Answer 2

Judge People By Their Actions

Answer 3

A person can have all the good intentions in the world, but unless they act upon them they remain what they are ....intentions. Action is what I judge people on if I find I need to judge someone at all.

Answer 4

Normally, a good intention is always followed by a good action. The motivation comes from within and is put into effect through its execution.
When a good thing is simply urged in the mind, and is never implemented, what goodness would it do? A lot of people come up with real good intentions that only die in the subconscious mind as they remain but intentions. I don't judge good intentions,..I could just admire and praise them. Neither do I judge by actions. I could only wish that for every good thing done,..hypocrisy is omitted...and that the heart's intention is purely manifested.

Answer 5

Dante said the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and I tend to believe he was correct. You could say that stated intentions operate in the abstract, while actions are clear concrete manifestations of a person's true intentions. An intention only relates to potential action, and therefore it would be foolish to judge someone by what they say they will do, rather than the eventual action they take.

Answer 6

I judge them for both. If someone has bad intentions then, even if the consequences of their actions turn out good, how can anyone say that person is good? If someone has the best of intentions yet things turn out bad, can we really say that person is bad? The answer is no to both. So both are important.

Answer 7

Only actions can be judged as they are what is seen. Intentions, good, bad, whatever, can only be guessed at. Until intentions are acted on, no one knows them.

Answer 8

I do not judge People by their Actions or good intentions, if I know a person that has done good to others, I always praise his Goodwill, to him/her, not to other People, the only one that knows, what good or bad deeds we do is the one that we cannot hide from, so, who are we to Judge other people.

Answer 9

I do judge people insofar as knowing who I want to associate with or want my kids to associate with.

Both actions and intentions are important. Someone who helps another because they feel pressured to do so but down deep resents giving such help is someone I'd be wary of.

Someone who intends the best but succumbs to other decisions and actions is someone I might better understand and appreciate but still be wary of.

Obviously someone who has both ill intent and ill actions I'd avoid... except to help them get help.

And the rare person who is good in intention and honourable in their actions consistently is someone to be cherished, friend or not.

Peace

Answer 10

Not much to their good intentions, a lot toward their actions, and I like to access some indictions of traits they lean toward, how strong those traits are, how much self discipline they really have, not what they'd like to have me believe. Some pretty fine assessing of these things can be gained though palmistry (only for the well studied experts, same to astrology, to palmistry, to other studies like Japanese studies of lines and shapes of face etc. I wouldn't lean too hard on any of them but they coiuld help. And don't forget people change continually for the better if they think and act in that dirction.