Quotes About Intentions

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

Thomas Sowell

#2. Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Fernando Pessoa

#3. 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

#4. For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

James Russell Lowell

#5. Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

Keir Dullea

#6. Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

Camille Paglia

#7. 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

#8. I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.

K. Martin Beckner

#9. I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek.

Tyson Fury

#10. Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

Robin LaFevers

#11. Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.

Philip Guston

#12. The worst of me wants credit for intending to do right by Jermaine, and has no intentions of disrupting my life for the needs of a cousin I always looked up to.

Kiese Laymon

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals.

Veronica Roth

#16. I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

Rachel Kushner

#17. Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she wasn't, and it seemed she would never be, but it was clearly something she aspired to, since all the people she respected were.

Elizabeth McCracken

#18. In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Jorge Luis Borges

#19. 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

#20. Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.

Cassandra Clare

#21. Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

Alan Cohen

#22. It's not proper for seventeen-year-old princesses to be alone with young men who have questionable intentions."
She laughed. "And what about young men who she's been best friends with since she was barely old enough to walk?"
He shook his head. "Those are the worst.

Marissa Meyer

#23. Only good intentions may not always translate into good results.

Girdhar Joshi

#24. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!

Archibald Marwizi

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. You can have the best intentions, but the moment there's a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.

Jodi Picoult

#28. 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

#29. Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

Robert Scheer

#30. 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

#31. It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

Albert Einstein

#32. I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

Duane G. Carey

#33. One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

Ben Whishaw

#34. Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Mark Twain

#35. Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the conduit through which people share their thoughts and intentions and thereby acquire the knowledge, customs, and values of those around them.

Steven Pinker

#36. There is nothing more pathetic than people hiding their
cowardice behind seemingly noble intentions.

Amish Tripathi

#37. 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

#38. I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

Anais Nin

#39. I've always embraced my differences, but, there are others who misinterpret my intentions.

Angel M.B. Chadwick

#40. Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.

Rosalind Wiseman

#41. I know they're true." "Because?" "Human nature," he said. "You know how it is. Whatever your intentions, if you have the ability to do something, then you will do it, sooner or later. The temptation is always there, and it can't be resisted forever. Don't tell me you think any different.

Lee Child

#42. You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

William H. O'Connell

#43. 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

#44. I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

John Travolta

#45. 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

#46. You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Marcel Proust

#47. Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Napoleon Hill

#48. It struck at the root of intentions, not at the flower.
And both root and the flower were important to him, one having to do with what one meant to do ... and the other, most fearsome, with the outcome of it.

C.J. Cherryh

#49. Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw punches with bad intentions.

Cus D'Amato

#50. The most important thing is to figure out Your goal in life. If Your intentions and methods are correct,
there is no way You will not achieve it.

Arjun Rampal

#51. I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

Ronald Biggs

#52. There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

George Carlin

#53. I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

Jim Jeffords

#54. 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

#55. Taking Flora to his room, rather than any other, amounted to a public declaration of his intentions. She was his, and he was saying as much.
Lachlan didn't give a damn what anyone thought, he wanted her with him. It was as simple as that.

Monica McCarty

#56. 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

#57. You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.

Scott Lynch

#58. 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

#59. The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Helen Rowland

#60. Her laughter could weaken my intentions to quit, even if I was dying.

Anmol Rawat

#61. Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

Anthony Kiedis

#62. Had I known you had pure, or what you thought were pure intentions, in that silly mind of yours, I wouldn't have tried to kill you."
Philip let out a bark of laughter. "Well, as far as apologies go, that wasn't half bad. Not every day a man comes in and apologises for wishing you dead.

Rachel Van Dyken

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#66. Where ethics are concerned, intentions are everything.

Sam Harris

#67. If the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

Jacqueline Winspear

#68. Humph. Looking around for the sword, are you? Well, it's a better idea than thrashing around at random.'
'The Prince,' said Master Horace repressively, 'will inform us of his intentions when he wishes to do so. We are here to serve, not to quest
'
'Yes, it's the sword,' Edoran told her.

Hilari Bell

#69. A lot of mistakes, but all of them in the past. Some made with worthy intentions, some without. When you live a long time you get to collect a lot of mistakes.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#70. He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

Paulo Coelho

#71. A small step is much more powerful than the mightiest intentions.

Abhishek Kumar

#72. It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.

Andrew Cohen

#73. Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Orson Scott Card

#74. What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

Lloyd Alexander

#75. Successful commitment occurs when your stated intentions are stronger than your hidden intentions, or when you consciously reconcile the conflict.

Brian P. Moran

#76. He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention ... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#77. No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Margaret Thatcher

#78. Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.

Michael Lerner

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

Suzy Kassem

#80. ... one doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.

Frank Herbert

#81. The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body language. They perceive our intentions even though we may not be consciously aware of them.

John M. Marzluff

#82. 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

#83. The powerlessness of people with pure intentions, in the long run, can sometimes be more powerful than power in the hands of those blinded or depraved by evil tempers.

Widad Akreyi

#84. Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

David Hilfiker

#85. 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

#86. The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

Melissa Auf Der Maur

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. Im a peaceful man with bad intentions.

Charlie Sheen

#90. It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

Oscar Wilde

#91. She held his stare, waiting for a clue to his intentions - a smile, a nod, even a frown. But he just looked straight at her, his eyes boring holes in her, reaching inside and lighting a fuse line of heat down to her belly. It seemed to last an eternity, that stare.

Maggie LaCroix

#92. I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

Alicia Silverstone

#93. Intentions of a man reflects in his actions.

Sukant Ratnakar

#94. God save us from people who mean well.

Vikram Seth

#95. 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

#96. How could something that started out with such good intentions end so badly?

Chris Saunders

#97. She did her best but like Uncle E says, sometimes your best just ain't good enough.

Patricia Wood

#98. The messages he watched and sent out were a kind of prayer for him, though he wouldn't have said it that way. Something that brought peace and the illusion that what they were caught up in wasn't so massively bigger than their own individual wills and hopes and intentions.

James S.A. Corey

#99. Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.

Deepak Chopra

#100. Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne Dyer