Top 1200 Best Intentions Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.

Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately.That's just a warning. To everyone.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.

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

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.

I've never had any intentions of taking a break (from boxing).

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.

It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.

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

For myself, it's trying to do my best in whatever I am doing. At this time, it is boxing; then when I get home, I want to be the best father, the best husband, the best man I can be.

If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth.

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

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

Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. Mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion - that is all "our" doing, "our" invention: the invention of the intellectuals. If only we would stop setting man against man - often with the best intentions - much would be gained. Nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Socialism destroys everywhere one thing - diversity. Everything is supposed to be best, and as we know, best things are always in shortage. I remind once more that for reds "best" is what they consider "best" for us, and not what we like.

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.

I put out my first song with no intentions of being famous.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

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

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

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

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing art for the right reasons, um, and with the best intentions. Anything at all is completely possible and I think that's what I like about drawing. I think it's just really fun. You can do anything you want. And that's part of, like, what's really enjoyable about it... is kind of losing yourself in it.

I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.