Top 1200 Best Intentions Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice. It’s the choice that counts.

Even if you have the best intentions, there may sometimes be a price or a cost or a pushback against what you're doing.

Although actions speak louder than words, I believe it is our intentions that reveal our soul. Refrain from judging others based solely on their words and actions, and seek to know their deepest intentions so that you can know who they truly aspire to be, and support them in becoming the best version of themselves.

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.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

A great deal of it is personal. But the persona is, I guess, the out of body experience that takes place. Because I'm not conscious of what the outcome is going to be, I'm only conscious of my intentions, do you know what I'm saying? And even my intentions were simple initially.

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.

Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves.

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, sometimes it's just not forever. You can have the best of intentions.

If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.

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

I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the best intentions, but usually it fails.'

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

The teaching on karma starts with the principle that people experience happiness and sorrow based on a combination of their past and present intentions. If we act with unskillful intentions either for ourselves or for others, we’re going to suffer. If we act with skillful intentions, we’ll experience happiness. So if we want to be happy, we have to train our intentions to always be skillful.

Do I want a character who just has the best motives and the best intentions, zero flaws, and is doing things for the right reasons? No!

The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.

It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

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

Authentic power is the energy that Is formed by the intentions of the Soul. It is the light shaped by the intentions of love and compassion guided by wisdom

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.

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

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

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

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

History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.

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.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

What I learned from my husband is to assume the best intentions of the people you're engaging with. We had to do that early in our courtship, in order for me to move past my tribalism.

We made 'Baahubali' with pure intentions. It taught us that we might be remembered for the rest of our lives if we do something with good intentions in our hearts.

["Faggot"] is a great word! The whole thing about language is, it's supposed to be broadcasting your intentions. These are my intentions and these words broadcast my feelings. If all of a sudden you have forbidden words that doesn't make the intent any better. It's just appeasing sensitive people.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

So many people have opinions and try to guide you, and everyone has the best intentions, but it makes it harder to cut through the noise and be like 'wow, this is what I really want to do.'

When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's bad paths that you can go on even if you have good intentions and we believe that.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

Intentions are nice, but ultimately intentions don't really matter because they only exist inside you.

One of Rent the Runway's core values is 'Trust in Everyone's Best of Intentions.' We trust our team.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.