Top 100 Good Intention Quotes
#1. You do this, perhaps, with a good intention,' said the Cardinal, 'but, in my opinion, it were wiser in you, and perhaps better for you, not to engage in so ridiculous a contest with a Fool.'
Thomas More
#3. He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
John Leguizamo
#4. 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.
Joseph Addison
#5. Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream. An
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#6. The advantage of living your life consistently with determination, purpose and righteousness, every day is a success. There is victory in each good intention that you act upon! - HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Carlos Wallace
#7. the smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention
Duguet
#8. They entered Pennsylvania and the road grew smooth for a few hundred yards, like a good intention, before settling back to the old scabby, stippled surface.
Anne Tyler
#9. Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
Fred Thompson
#10. One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
Thomas Aquinas
#11. I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.
Steven Erikson
#12. Laws of good intention are really of no use unless there are good people to enforce them.
J. Lloyd Morgan
#13. I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.
Ilchi Lee
#14. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption.
Yuval Levin
#15. I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.
Lady Gaga
#16. Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
Peter Drucker
#18. Managers who aspire to be ethical must challenge the assumption that they're always unbiased and acknowledge that vigilance, even more than good intention, is a defining characteristic of an ethical manager.
Harvard Business School Press
#19. A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
Thomas A. Edison
#20. They believe that a good intention already means a new beginning; they believe that on their own they can make a new start whenever they want. But that is an evil illusion: only God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#21. Good intention bring success in everything you do. Intention is always supported by the universal energy because it's a vital ingredient for manifestation.
Hina Hashmi
#22. Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.
Paul Washer
#23. The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#24. 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
#26. Before you act, find your center. Ground yourself in Spirit. Set ego aside. Ask yourself, "How do I want to be about this? What would love do?" Then do that. With good intention and inspired action, good results follow. It's karma.
Annette Vaillancourt
#27. No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.
Albert Camus
#29. There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work.
Maria Kang
#30. A presence is made of the tiniest things. I sweep you up softly. You stayed too long. How is it you fly with every good intention.
Farrah Field
#31. Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Edmund Burke
#32. A promise kept is trust coming to life. A promise kept is more powerful than a good intention, a thought or any material comfort. A promise kept tells the other person they are valued, respected and loved.
Alex Blackwell
#33. We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
Peter Abelard
#34. A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. Why, with all this good intention, does it still feel so muddy when we talk about culture, what it is, and how to make it better? It's because we're trying to bring personal growth and spiritual ideas into the workplace without first changing the underlying agreement that governs it. The
Jonathan Raymond
#37. It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.
Cecilia Grant
#38. Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time - and have so often in them some narcotic which develops an inner gaze instead of a resilience that begets energy.
Soren Kierkegaard
#39. Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.
Alan Cohen
#40. Only good intentions may not always translate into good results.
Girdhar Joshi
#41. Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
Mark Twain
#42. There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.
Napoleon Hill
#43. 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
#44. Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
Victor Garber
#45. One may be doing all good and right things, but if they aren't done with good intentions, they are futile. Having right intentions is the most important! Even the prayers are of no use if not done in the right earnest!
Neelam Saxena Chandra
#46. Good People' need to have manifestations (track record of impact) not just manifestos (intention)
Fela Durotoye
#47. It isn't about the sharpness of the blade, but the hand that holds it.' Science doesn't do good or ill by itself- it's the intention behind it.
Megan Shepherd
#48. To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.
Suzy Kassem
#49. I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#50. I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.
Joel Edgerton
#51. Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors.
Sun Simiao
#52. My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.
Jason Mraz
#54. Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions.
John Connolly
#55. No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.
Thomas Jefferson
#56. I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
Sean Bean
#57. Ian did, with a blackened eye, skinned knuckles, and the terse report that Manfred had declared a set intention of going off and hanging himself, and good riddance to the fornicating son of a bitch, and might his rotten bowels gush forth like Judas Iscariot's, the traitorous, stinking wee turd.
Diana Gabaldon
#58. A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#59. With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
William James
#61. The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.
John Fowles
#62. 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
#64. There is only one way to make good on an intention, and that is to turn it into action.
A.W. Tozer
#65. My main intention is to inspire people. [Let] kids know that you experience things and it's okay to voice them and express yourself. Be an individual. If my record moves five people, that's good enough. I feel like I've done my job if it just touches somebody.
Sarah Hudson
#66. The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.
Charles Dow
#67. I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.
Caleb Carr
#68. I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.
Timothy Simons
#69. Look," she told me. "A good kreda is very hard to find. I invested a lot of time and memory in you. I had no intention of giving all that up, just because you were going to be in a bad mood for a decade or two.
C.S. Friedman
#70. Exercise for the joy of feeling good and getting better. Eat right with the intention of fueling your body with the things it needs to perform.
Tony Horton
#71. There's almost always a plausible rationale - and a good, if misguided, intention - behind every usability flaw. Another
Steve Krug
#72. I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
Amity Gaige
#73. The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#74. 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
#76. Intention to pray is even more powerful than physical prayer - but it's good to do both.
Art Hochberg
#77. I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.
Robert Rauschenberg
#78. We can't take pleasure in a work of art, not in good conscience, without accepting the implicit intention of the artist to please us.
Michael Chabon
#80. Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don't find time to practice, one of the three is missing.
Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
#81. So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.
Stephen Mitchell
#83. A city that had learned to make good bread had learned to make good cake also. A city that built itself up by good sense and industry had formed a powerful secondary intention of elegance.
Rebecca West
#84. Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
Oscar Wilde
#85. It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
Walt Kelly
#86. The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.
Norman Rockwell
#87. For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.
David Limbaugh
#88. The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.
Samuel Johnson
#90. I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney
#91. The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Robert Breault
#92. We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.
Seneca.
#93. I am an intellectual thug who has been slowly accumulating a private arsenal with every intention of using it. In a mindless age every insight takes on the character of a lethal weapon. Every man of good will is the enemy of society.
Marshall McLuhan
#94. Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#95. I buy things that are good properties that I'm going to have forever. I just don't have any intention to sell anything. I believe you acquire good assets and you keep them and operate them.
Tilman J. Fertitta
#96. We can't be responsible for other people's reactions to us, Lakshmi," she said. "We can only make sure our intentions are good.
Thrity Umrigar
#97. Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
Orlando Bloom
#98. If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.
Ezra Miller
#100. My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.
Adam Sandler
