Intentions Quotes

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Veganism gives people an actual chance to DO SOMETHING instead of adding more cement (good intentions) to pave that road to Hell.

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

Bad words don't exist, but words with bad intentions behind.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.

God save us from people who mean well.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.

Im a peaceful man with bad intentions.

Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

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.

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