Intentions Quotes

Do any of us know how we’re actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

Count the deed, not the thought.

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.

We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.

Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.

(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

Good intentions are not enough; commitment and sacrifice are necessary.

Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

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

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

So many people have bad intentions, so many girls want to hang out [with me] to be someone. I weed those people out of my life. I call them hungry tigers.