Top 1200 Good Intentions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

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

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

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

All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.

People with good intentions never give up!

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.

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.

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

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Aladdin is a good soul. He is very selfless and usually does things for other people, but as he falls in love, he loses himself a little bit and starts to become someone that he is not. But he is a person with good intentions and has good people surrounding him who lead him back to where he is supposed to be.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.

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

Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!

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

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.

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

Honesty, good intentions and industry, you will have of course. Without these your career would soon end with the loss of your good name. But you must be ambitious to be a good deal more. Webb Hayes, his son, went on to found what had become the Union Carbide Corporation.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.

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

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

The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

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

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

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

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

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

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

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

["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.

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

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'

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

(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.

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.