Quotes About Good And Bad Intentions

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

Joshua Ferris

#2. Bad decisions, good intentions.

Drake

#3. I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.

Elizabeth Mitchell

#4. 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.

Michael Ende

#5. It's a good fact to meet a stranger,but unfortunate when they have bad intentions in meeting you after the fact. Just know you have been a loyal from the beginning.

Touaxia Vang

#6. Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

James C. Collins

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

John Dewey

#8. And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

Gregory David Roberts

#9. Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.

Emily Thorne

#10. My road to hell isn't paved with good intentions - or bad - it's just my road.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. It ain't about your good or bad intentions, you just look so different.

Toba Beta

#12. Be deaf to those who love you most of all; they pray for bad things with good intentions.

Seneca.

#13. If your intentions are good, nothing bad can happen.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Listen, my timing might be bad, but my intentions are good.

Karyn Bosnak

#15. Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over ...

John Steinbeck

#16. A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

Thomas A. Edison

#17. The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Thomas Sowell

#18. All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Oscar Wilde

#19. Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions had miscarried, and bad ones had not improved.

Joseph Heller

#20. There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.

Katharine Graham

#21. If you want to do something but cannot, then before God, who knows our hearts, it is as if we have done it. This is true whether the intended action is good or bad.

St. Mark The Ascetic

#22. The bad news is, your choices and intentions, some people and places, those nights spent awake and all you've done, can lead you to the bottom of the pit. The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled, tooth and nail, out of hell.

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

George Bernard Shaw

#24. The evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that however isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue;

Albert Camus

#25. Intentions, whether good or bad, that don't reflect the words and actions are only meant to fulfill personal goals.

Ashish Patel

#26. 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.

Criss Jami

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

Milton Friedman

#28. You know how they say the path to hell is paved with good intentions? Well, maybe the path to heaven is paved with bad ones.

Jake Coburn

#29. Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions.

John Connolly

#30. 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.

Criss Jami

#31. 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

#32. To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

Suzy Kassem