Good Intent Quotes

#1. O blessed bounty, giving ail content!
The only fautress of all noble arts
That lend'st success to every good intent.
A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts,
By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd
Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.

Michael Drayton

#2. Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#3. Nurture the Power & Wisdom of your Own Inner Strengths, with Good Intent.

Eleesha

#4. If someone means well, but does ill, the ill is still done - and the consequences still exist. Besides, if intent forgives wrong, then any wrongdoer can claim good intent.

Elizabeth Moon

#5. Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.

T.F. Hodge

#6. One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

Thomas De Maiziere

#7. I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

Ralph Abernathy

#8. Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.

Scott Belsky

#9. But, frankly, to try to create some sort of a religious standard in terms of who can come to America, we're a melting pot. And as long as people have positive and good intent, they ought to be able to come.

John Kasich

#10. No race is more adept than humans at weaving a mask of excuses, at ultimately claiming good intent. And no race is more adept at believing its own claims. How many wars have been fought, man against man, with both armies espousing that god, a goodly god, was on their side and in their hearts? But

R.A. Salvatore

#11. Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

Katy Perry

#12. You ride horse of good intent," Naomi said. "It does not arrive at destination.

Jane Kirkpatrick

#13. Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

Stephen Covey

#14. If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

Robert Boyle

#16. Thoreau once said if you see a man approach you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life; it is hard to restrain the impulse in talking with social engineers.

William H. Whyte

#17. I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.

Chris Lynch

#18. Evil, good, create, destroy. Puny minds. Puny caves. Time, MacKayla. Time absolves.
Time does not define the act. Time is impartial; it neither condemns nor absolves. The action contains intent, and intent is where the definition lies.

Karen Marie Moning

#19. I didn't like how my body seemed to be intent on sabotaging my brain, especially since my brain was so good at sabotaging itself.

Penny Reid

#20. Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

William Shakespeare

#21. Magic is magic. It isn't good or bad in and of itself. It's the intent that matters. Ideally, you treat magic as a gift and you use it to influence natural forces to help and to heal. It's a positive act.

Dani Harper

#22. All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

Jesse Kellerman

#23. One of my favorite operations managers often reminds people to "assume positive intent" - that is, when conflict arises between people or groups, assume that all parties are motivated by the same desire to do good by the company.

Anonymous

#24. I have always maintained that if you work hard, it won't go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.

Suresh Raina

#25. And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good-to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.

L. Tom Perry

#26. Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

Samuel Johnson

#27. I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much.

Ruth Simmons

#28. It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters.

David Chiles

#29. The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

Vilfredo Pareto

#30. The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

Maya Angelou

#31. To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.

Simon R. Green

#32. In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Cesare Beccaria

#33. You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.

Sean Hannity

#34. Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

Elbert Hubbard

#35. Your Karma is defined by your Actions plus your Intent. A seemingly incorrect action with a pure intent can potentially result in good Karma

Manoj Arora

#36. There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse.

R.A. Salvatore

#37. I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough.

Kirk Wilson

#38. a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller

Sam Miller

#39. To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.

Francois Hollande

#40. The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#41. There can be no evil, nor any good, without intent.

R.A. Salvatore

#42. It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.

William P. Young

#43. When men seek after the Immutable, the Indeterminable, the Unmanifest, the All-Pervading, the Unthinkable, the Summit Self, the Immobile, the Permanent, - equal in mind to all,
intent on the good of all beings, it is to Me that they come.

Anonymous

#44. The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or ill intent.

Frederick Lenz

#45. It is my dominant intent to be good to me.

Esther Hicks

#46. Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.

Ravi Zacharias

#47. My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.

Brad Thor

#48. I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

J. Michael Straczynski

#49. Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.

Alphonsus Liguori

#50. I had never been good with words. On the path from my heart to my brain to my mouth, phrases became twisted and hopelessly convoluted. The intent - what I meant to say - never quite made it out.

Gabrielle Zevin

#51. It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

Victoria Woodhull

#52. The little smiling cottage! where at eve
He meets his rosy children at the door,
Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife,
With good brown cake and bacon slice, intent
To cheer his hunger after labor hard.

Edward Dyer

#53. People always ask me about the intent of witchcraft and what it is used for. The answer in 'white' covens is simple: it is to be use the powers for good amongst the circle and its friends.

Vivianne Crowley

#54. If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Aristotle.

#55. The Yale anthropologist Weston La Barre goes far as to argue that 'a surprisingly good case could be made that much of culture is hallucination' and that 'the whole intent and function of ritual appears to be... a group wish to hallucinate reality'.

Carl Sagan

#56. I'm not kind, darling. I'm only nice to people when I'm planning to take advantage of them." Lillian responded with a carefree grin, daring to ask, "Am I in danger from you, my lord?" Though his expression remained relaxed with good humor, his eyes were disturbingly intent. "I'm afraid so.

Lisa Kleypas

#57. You want to help. That's fine but do you know how you want to help? The intent may be good, but without the way, you are lost.

Arnab Ray

#58. Sometimes, the intent is good enough when the action seems impossible.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#59. I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?

Charles Portis

#60. Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Raymond E. Feist

#61. I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Michael J. Fox