Quotes About People's Intentions

#1. Rather than trying to prevent all errors, we should assume, as is almost always the case, that our people's intentions are good and that they want to solve problems. Give them responsibility, let the mistakes happen, and let people fix them.

Ed Catmull

#2. The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

Peter Garrett

#3. You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.

Matt LeBlanc

#4. The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Lilly Singh

#5. There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

Rush Limbaugh

#6. It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

Carmelo Anthony

#7. 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

#8. Most of the problems in life are because:
We misunderstand people's intentions,
We don't listen and jump to conclusions,
Then we are too proud to apologise and too stubborn to forgive.

Mouloud Benzadi

#9. I feel very vulnerable at Halloween. I feel that people who might come to the door might not have candy intentions. I'm a little lady and I can be overcome.

Zelda Rubinstein

#10. The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck; and focus on a few striking events that happened rather than on the countless events that failed to happen.

Daniel Kahneman

#12. People with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for. That

Shanthi Sekaran

#13. It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

Colin Hay

#14. They help and aid to which the heart sings
For their good intentions they earn their wings.

Justin Bienvenue

#15. In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.

Ruth Rendell

#16. I'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don't care about gear in general. I care about people and their intentions to make music - it doesn't matter what equipment you have.

Dave Sitek

#17. God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.

Max Anders

#18. It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person."

Tom Felton

#19. Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

Viggo Mortensen

#20. Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

Oscar Wilde

#21. It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#22. They were trying to discover a cure for the toxin," I said.
"It doesn't matter what the intentions were or what the logic was behind the decision. What matters is that six million people died." Quain gasped in mock horror. "Unless those six million people are pretending to be dead.

Maria V. Snyder

#23. Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.

Zig Ziglar

#24. A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.

Ronald Reagan

#25. Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.

Gary F. Marcus

#26. We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.

Chris Hodges

#27. 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.

Pleasefindthis

#28. Sometimes people do what they think is for the best, and their intentions are misinterpreted.

Theresa Breslin

#29. Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.

John Ashcroft

#30. There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Laura Lippman

#31. Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.

Douglas Conant

#32. 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

#33. If your organization's intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul, people will respond. They will connect. They will like you. They will talk. They will buy.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#34. 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

#35. I am conservative, there's no doubt about it. But you can be conservative and still work with people, and that's what my intentions are.

Jason T. Smith

#36. Dont throw yourself out on another's whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love those around you, but realize that they've got their own agendas.

Alex Gaskarth

#37. The road to hell may be paved with good intentions but the path to misery is cobbled with trying to live up to other people's status updates

LaToya Hankins

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

Neil Jordan

#41. While it does matter what words you use when talking with other people, to an angel it's more about the intentions and energy behind the words.

Doreen Virtue

#42. People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?

Kirstie Alley

#43. I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.

Gary Locke

#44. What makes you my friend if you doubt my intentions?

Usman Iqbal

#45. I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

Rupert Friend

#46. 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

#47. He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

Alexandra Bracken

#48. 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

#49. Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.

Anton Corbijn

#50. Fear of the right type can be beneficial to the people of God (see Prov. 1:7), but the fear of man's hostile intentions seldom fits that category.

Max Anders

#51. As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

Jayni Chase

#52. People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.

Jaeda DeWalt

#53. People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#54. Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

Nicola Sturgeon

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

Vikram Seth

#56. A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.

Clive Owen

#57. Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master.

Daniel Webster

#58. You can't go messing around with people's hearts. It never ends well, no matter how good your intentions might be -Daniel

Amanda Hocking

#59. We're now interested in finding those who may attack America and arrest them before they do. We've had over nearly a thousand people have been detained in America and questioned about their motives and their intentions.

George W. Bush

#60. As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions.

Dean Koontz

#61. We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.

Pema Chodron

#62. There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have recognized that they have trans people in their world. Caitlyn Jenner really is thinking about the movement and saving lives, so I know that her intentions are honorable.

Jill Soloway

#63. One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

Paulo Freire

#64. The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align

Vineet Nayar

#65. When you help people, don't wait around to hear them say, "Thank you." A lot of times we do good things, but in the back of our mind we're hoping to get some appreciation. But if you make your intentions pure, and you expect only from Allah, He will take more care of you than you could ever imagine.

Nouman Ali Khan

#66. I had lots of good intentions but I wasted them on people who didn't deserve them ...

Bellamkonda Avinash Babu

#67. God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.

Smith Wigglesworth

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

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

Orson Scott Card

#73. 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

#74. 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

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

Amish Tripathi

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view.

Karina Longworth

#79. Hide your intentions not by closing up (with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals-just not the real ones.

Robert Greene

#80. Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

David A. Stewart

#81. I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

Carl Lewis

#82. We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that thing happens to be the will, the determination, and the resolve of people everywhere that nations will never again clash on the battlefield.

Leslie Groves

#83. Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#84. If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#85. The act is a vessel that can hold a continuum of human intentions - a sweet, holy song of flesh and love, the simple, mindless rut of youth, or the darkest violation. It encompasses what we bring to it. Too often people fill it with shame.

Rhonda Riley

#86. I am a kind of paranoid in reverse.
I suspect people of having good intentions.

Jose N. Harris

#87. So many people have bad intentions, so many girls want to hang out [with me] to be someone. I weed those people out of my life. I call them hungry tigers.

Paris Hilton

#88. I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

Richard M. Nixon

#89. What I am about to set forth is our system for gaining power over the people of the world. We have two things that will help us achieve this: we have ourselves, with our knowledge, intentions, scheming and actions, and we have the unawareness of the mass of the people.

Paul Bowden

#90. A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.

Josh Charles

#91. To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.

Michael Specter

#92. Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

Harvey MacKay

#93. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are - or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn't. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

Michael J. Sullivan

#94. Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

Sophie Hannah

#95. to be a fiction writer, you also need to be a psychologist (understanding people's personalities and intentions), a philosopher (asking big questions about meaning and human nature), and a poet (breathing life into your words and the spaces between them).

Steven James

#96. Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Maya Angelou

#97. No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

Marcus Buckingham

#98. You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

Ron Silver

#99. Live in peace with all mankind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#100. Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

T. S. Eliot