Top 52 My Intentions Are Good Quotes
#1. Tell your sister I'm all right," Mrs Whatsit said to Charles. "Tell her my intentions are good." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," Charles intoned.
Madeleine L'Engle
#2. I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to see New Zealand flourish.
Kim Dotcom
#3. I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.
Nick Hornby
#4. Listen, my timing might be bad, but my intentions are good.
Karyn Bosnak
#5. 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
#6. Good grief. Are you flirting with me?"
"Honey, my intentions are way past flirting."
"Your intentions could get you a knee in the groin."
Nick grinned. "At least your mind's on the right body part.
Janet Evanovich
#7. No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
#8. To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.
Suzy Kassem
#9. How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth "love," "family" and "friendship" without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.
Donna Lynn Hope
#10. What are you waiting for tomorrow to do? To get done? To achieve? To start? Where your good intentions are disconnecting from the actions you should do for the things you desire?
Tony Curl
#11. The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.
Melissa Auf Der Maur
#12. It occurred to him that he may have led them into a topic he had no intentions of exploring further. Fantasies, sure. Wishes, all the time. But reality? No - this was taboo. This would end in nothing good. She
Marissa Meyer
#13. How can two good people both have such good intentions end up with feelings, derived from all the goodness, that are so incredibly bad?
Colleen Hoover
#14. God save us from people who mean well.
Vikram Seth
#15. No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.
Michael Josephson
#16. How could something that started out with such good intentions end so badly?
Chris Saunders
#17. She did her best but like Uncle E says, sometimes your best just ain't good enough.
Patricia Wood
#19. We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.
Ronald Reagan
#21. In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.
George Washington
#22. Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips.
Irvin S. Cobb
#23. How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
Mark Twain
#24. I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.
Curtis Jackson
#25. What's rare is to have a good, strong man, as opposed to a good, weak man. Those are the ones who ruin the world. Men who mean well, but buckle under others' opinions until their good intentions destroy an untold number of lives." My
Sara Raasch
#27. For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum
#28. Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.
Andre Geim
#29. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. (This is not actually true. The raid to Hell is paved with frozen door-to-door salesman. On weekends, many of the younger demons go ice skating down it.)
Terry Pratchett
#30. The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
Thomas Sowell
#31. 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
#32. Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.
Camille Paglia
#33. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.
Bob Mcdowell
#34. Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.
Robin LaFevers
#35. He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter - a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly.
Walter Mosley
#36. But it really all boils down to this - we don't know them, for all our sincerity, our good intentions. We don't know, because we were never one of them.
F. Sionil Jose
#37. Formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals.
Veronica Roth
#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. There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will not do it." The other, "I wish to do well, but I have not as much power as I have will; it is this which holds me back." The first fills Hell, the second Paradise.
Francis De Sales
#42. He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions
but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close.
Stephen King
#43. It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.
Stephen R. Covey
#44. It is quite normal to see good intentions, when not carried out with moderation, urging men to actions which are truly vicious.
Michel De Montaigne
#45. Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
Mark Twain
#46. As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce ...
Jacqueline Novogratz
#47. However, in the virtual world of social networks, we get attracted to identities that are virtual. We don't know who is behind them and what their intentions are. Sometimes, they are just predators looking for easy prey. And they are very good at what they do.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#48. And yet, far off, I can hear something whispering that this compulsion to do, to intrude ourselves, to improve on what is
even when wholly well intentioned, particularly when wholly well intentioned
is the source of all our troubles.
Mark Slouka
#49. Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.
Napoleon Hill
#50. Let me soap you," he murmured.
"Thank you for your good intentions," she said, "but my two hands are quite enough."
"Even if it's just your back," the foreigner begged.
"That would be silly," she said. "People never soap their backs.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#51. But that's the thing about promises, isn't it? They can't always be kept. No matter how good the intentions behind them are.
Kara Terzis
#52. When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
Thomas Sowell
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