Top 50 Best Intention Quotes
#1. Karma operates not so much as some external credit-and-debit ledger but more as an energy, a charge that grows over time. This is how even small acts of generosity, especially when motivated by the best intention, can become causes for much greater wealth in the future.
David Michie
#2. That is the problem with not being able to depend on anything, you become afraid of everything -- even the best of intention.
J.L. Rallios
#3. Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#4. Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
Peter Drucker
#5. Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.
Melissa Manchester
#6. You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.
Tony Palermo
#7. Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.
Edwina Findley
#8. I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.
Robert Smith
#10. Everyday when you wake up, create the intention and then commit to making it your best day ever. Seriously. Do it.
Hal Elrod
#11. We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.
Amy Dickinson
#12. To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Carl Jung
#13. The point of this language of "intention" and "personal responsibility" is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. "Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#14. The only preparation or participation required to unleash the power of intention is a connection to the conscious intelligence field, which can be attained in many ways, one of the best being meditation.
Deepak Chopra
#15. The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.
Les Brown
#16. The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.
Deborah Day
#17. I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.
George Frederic Watts
#18. I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.
J. Tillman
#19. Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#20. I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold
but not our brother-men
not even the best and kindest amongst them.
Anne Bronte
#21. This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.
Jeremy Taylor
#22. I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not the primary intention. My intention is to make the best pictorial image I can.
Richard Billingham
#23. The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.
Elena Ferrante
#24. The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#25. I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best
Cristiano Ronaldo
#26. I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.
Moby
#27. The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
#28. For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
James Russell Lowell
#29. We make a living by what we give; and live a life by what we have yet to give.
George Alexiou
#30. It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.
Larry Hagman
#31. There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.
Yitzhak Rabin
#32. Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.
Andrew Jackson
#33. The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
Joseph Campbell
#34. The only perfection available to you without compromise is that of intention and effort. If you endeavor to be the best pencil sharpener you can be, and tailor your actions accordingly, you can be certain all else will be forgiven in the final accounting.
David Rees
#35. Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions.
John Connolly
#36. On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. New York was the nowhere he had built around himself, and he realized that he has no intention of ever leaving it again.
Paul Auster
#37. Be the best at whatever you do, but first make sure that what you are doing is for the best.
Shon Mehta
#38. I'm very simple when it comes to gifts, so the best ones that I've received have love as their main intention. I appreciate everything.
Adriana Lima
#39. We are just trying to do the best possible job we can. We're not perfect. All you can do is trust the positive intention behind it, and we're always going to work to, hopefully, get better and better.
Ellen Page
#40. 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.
Deepak Chopra
#41. A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.
Wes Fesler
#42. Today is sacred - for it will never come again. What could be more important than living this day with attention and the intention to be of benefit, to the best of your ability, to all you encounter?
John Bruna
#43. An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
Joseph Addison
#44. I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.
Nicholas Sparks
#45. Being the best is rarely within our reach. Doing our best is always within our reach.
Charles F. Glassman
#46. Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
Tom Petty
#48. Even if I never registered my YouTube channel with the intention of being a role model, if I am that for somebody, I can't help it. So I need to be conscious of it and realize that influence can be used for good or bad, and just try to do my best.
Tyler Oakley
#49. Sometimes people do what they think is for the best, and their intentions are misinterpreted.
Theresa Breslin
#50. Even the best intentions turn around one day ... Nobody's right all the time.
Stevie Nicks
