Top 100 Quotes About Intentions
#1. (P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
Gayle Forman
#2. Anything undertaken with honest intentions can be justly defended.
G. Willow Wilson
#3. Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.
Shirley Temple
#4. ...whatever their intentions, the topic addressed by Arrow and Debreu was the coherence of economic theory, not the coordination of economic activities.
Brian J. Loasby
#5. Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Stephen Covey
#6. We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.
Amy Dickinson
#7. Harm is one of those things that I always mean to keep clear of, but somehow my intentions and me don't chime as they ought, and people will get hit with stones that I throw at my neighbor's dogs ...
Emily Dickinson
#8. As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others, as well as our intentions and relationships, in a new light. Resistance, defensiveness, and violent reactions are minimized.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#9. I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.
William Monahan
#10. These days, she would have auctioned off the Milky Way to make his intentions a little less honorable. Her
Marissa Meyer
#11. People with good intentions never give up!
Jane Smiley
#12. It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
King Hassan II
#13. The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#14. This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron
#15. Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.
Megan Fox
#16. We cannot continue to allow immigrants to come here illegally. And in this age of terrorism, we must not let in refugees whose intentions cannot be determined.
Nikki Haley
#17. Whoever said, "I'll give you the world," to their significant other, must have had bad intentions.
Anthony Liccione
#18. The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter's intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able to separate her identity from her daughter's, has the key to achieving the right balance.
Susan Shapiro Barash
#19. With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.
Serj Tankian
#20. One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.
Heather Langenkamp
#21. Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude,
Jean Chretien
#22. It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.
Paul Kingsnorth
#23. Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals.
Bryant McGill
#24. intentions are always speaking ten times louder than your actual words. What are they saying?
Mark Manson
#25. Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
Noam Chomsky
#26. I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations.
Jennifer Lopez
#28. (from: Age Sixty-nine)
Often, lately, the night is a cold maw
and stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of us. At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understand
yet day by day feel the grace of their intentions.
Jim Harrison
#29. Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?
George W. Bush
#30. I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.
Rupert Friend
#31. I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
Marcus Aurelius
#32. Be deaf to those who love you most of all; they pray for bad things with good intentions.
Seneca.
#33. I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
Lord Byron
#34. Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
E. Stanley Jones
#35. When teachers are fully successful, they are successful beyond any of their conscious intentions about particular subjects: they make converts, they make souls that have been turned around to face a given way of being and moving in the world.
Wayne C. Booth
#36. When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.
Robert Jenkins
#37. And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.
Sandor Marai
#38. [W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
Ayelet Waldman
#39. But the wine had muffled the voices, making it harder for her to read the intentions of the man sitting next to her.
Elizabeth Hunter
#40. Legends have it that once a Scot covers a lass with his plaid, his intentions are spoken.
Vonnie Davis
#41. A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.
Dylan Thomas
#42. Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do.
Anna Quindlen
#43. The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think; and our intentions govern what we think.
Bryant McGill
#44. Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.
John C. Maxwell
#45. Love, as most know, follows its own timeline. Disregarding our intentions or well rehearsed plans.
Leslye Walton
#46. 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
#47. Life was not fair, it simply existed. If you accidentally stepped on a poison snake, you got bitten. Intentions were irrelevant.
Terry Goodkind
#48. Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.
Hanif Kureishi
#49. State intentions every day. Create action plans to achieve your intention.
Mallika Chopra
#50. There are three ways in which we are honest. And those three ways will make up the bulk of this book. The three ways are 1) living based on our values (lifestyle); 2) becoming comfortable with our intentions (boldness); and 3) by expressing our sexuality freely (communication).
Mark Manson
#51. He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence
Jose Maria Merino
#53. Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts.
Robert A. Johnson
#54. Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#55. Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.
Tim Walberg
#56. Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.
Tupac Shakur
#57. If your intentions are pure, if you apply your craft with a view to observe humanity and, ultimately, God himself, very often something powerful will surface.
Yasmin Ahmad
#58. Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
Eric Hoffer
#59. Everyone is curious about the intentions of their enemies.
Jung Woo
#60. Your ideas, thoughts and intentions are the seeds of creation, and your attention is the powerful tool that drives energy toward the object or outcome that you want to create. Your positive emotion and passionate action add power to the creative process.
Ilchi Lee
#61. Everything starts out as just friends, right? Everything. But then things change and suddenly you're in love with someone and your whole world is flipped upside down ... But you always have good intentions. Everything always starts out as just friends.
Alysha Speer
#62. We're all guilty of hiding things - it's the nature of the world today. We hide our feelings, we hide our pasts, we hide our true intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore.
Suzanne Young
#63. But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
Joey Skaggs
#64. People that do good in the world or that want to do good, that have good intentions and want to help other people, and people that aren't concerned with themselves but more [with] others and helping in service of others - that inspires me.
Daniella Alonso
#65. Good intentions are not enough; commitment and sacrifice are necessary.
Laurence Boldt
#66. And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago.
Andre Agassi
#67. Then maybe you can help me out with something. I need an armaments shop. I want to buy a sword. A really good one." Jace looked surprised, then amused. "What for?" "Oh, you know. Killing." Clary made a hand gesture she hoped conveyed her murderous intentions toward all things evil.
Cassandra Clare
#68. This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan - making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.
Rachel Cohn
#69. beliefs create or constrain possibilities, desires lead to preferences among them, and intentions represent commitments to specific courses of action. Each of the primitive elements can evolve in time, which is why mental models have momentum.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#70. Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#71. When you do something with all your heart and good intentions the small life turns magical.
Bella Meraki
#72. The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.
Terry Deary
#73. Humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
Wm. Paul Young
#74. 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
#75. God's eyes are fastened with eternal intentions on the inner man. That's why sometimes God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.
Beth Moore
#76. I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.
William Faulkner
#77. Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
Gary Hamel
#78. With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline.
Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. Intentions. That's important in music, too. Critically important. What you're thinking about can be what you become.
Mitch Albom
#80. I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.
Stephen Colbert
#81. ...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.
Jeffrey Goldberg
#82. Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .
Jim Rohn
#83. There's no fair swap for truth, son, not even with good intentions."
-Jones
Janelle Taylor
#84. Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.
David Letterman
#85. I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
Harmony Korine
#86. Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.
Angie Thomas
#87. Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.
Claudio Sanchez
#88. Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.
Monte Irvin
#90. Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.
Muhammad Ali
#91. We should grow like a tree that likewise does not know its law. We tie ourselves up with intentions, not mindful of the fact that intention is the limitation, yes, the exclusion of life.
C. G. Jung
#92. In this toxic atmosphere, good intentions are eroding like the noses of stone gargoyles on cathedral peaks.
Peter Matthiessen
#93. One good thing is that I've been following the priest's orders to meditate on how I've hurt people. It's helped me recognize that we can't help but make mistakes, even when our intentions are good.
James Patterson
#94. There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#95. We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.
Jayce O'Neal
#96. I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.
Claire Hennessy
#97. The people had fled into the buildings, but the thick, salty mark of their fear still hung heavy in the air, coagulating with the bees' magical stench of rotting, acid-dripping flowers into a nauseating miasma of crumbling courage and ill intentions.
Ella Summers
#98. Books provide a handy shorthand when Rory's mostly MIA father, Christopher, is first introduced to viewers. Christopher's offer to buy Rory the Compact Oxford English Dictionary she covets is sincere; his lack of ability to follow through on his good intentions is Christopher in a nutshell.
Jennifer Crusie
#99. So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#100. Do any of us know how we're actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?
Cheryl Heller
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