Top 1200 Good Intentions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome. We don't need to become involved in the details-in fact, trying too hard may backfire. Let the non-local intelligence synchronize the actions of the universe to fulfill your intentions for you.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.

Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

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

To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.

When I go out with my friends, if people come up to me, everyone has good intentions and means well.

I love the story of Quasimodo, about someone who feels like they don't belong but is pure of heart and has good intentions. It's a great message for a younger audience.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but very badly executed.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Do any of us know how we’re actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?

I try to support any and all animal causes or organizations out there if they are good and reputable. Sadly, there are a lot of people and organizations that raise money but don't do much or don't have good intentions. I've worked with organizations such as Marine Animal Rescue in Southern California.

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a lot of denial, and denial is always dangerous even if all of your intentions are good and all your preparations are good. When you make a choice you're denying an infinite number of other choices.

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

Our good intentions have gotten in our own way and it's bad for immigrants.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

China never had good intentions. Since the late 1980s, its stated aim has been world domination, technologically and militarily.

I think every human being has good intentions in one aspect of life and some in every.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be based on good intentions or natural talent. First and foremost there must be a spirit of sacrifice.

Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

Veganism gives people an actual chance to DO SOMETHING instead of adding more cement (good intentions) to pave that road to Hell.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

We need true free thinkers, people who really say what they feel and have good, genuine intentions.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

The most important thing, to me is the intention of where things come from, like, why did you use it? What were the intentions of what you did? And if the intention is good, the intention is pure, then everything will turn out good.

I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.