Quotes About Intentions

Resolutions were made for man, not man for resolutions." 

When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly.

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

If you let a person talk long enough, you'll hear their true intentions.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

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

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

We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

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

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

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.

When we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. In fact there are no promises of fruition at all. Instead we are encouraged to simply look deeply at joy and sorrow, at laughing and crying, at hoping and fearing, at all that lives and dies. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness.

Igual que seguía considerando que la gravedad es una fuerza que atrae las cosas hacia sí, y no una simple cuestión que se encarga de las que menos resistencia opongan a ella, estaba segura de que el carácter era una lucha entre las buenas y las malas intenciones.

People are always meaning well,' said Edward. 'That's often the trouble.

In today's world more harm may be done by well-intentioned people trying to do good, who are unaware of the unintended consequences of their actions, than by people actually trying to cause harm.

Game theory says that the true source of uncertainty lies in the intentions of others.

Without effective local line leaders, new ideas—no matter how compelling—do not get translated into action, and the intentions behind change initiatives from the top can easily be thwarted. Network

In this toxic atmosphere, good intentions are eroding like the noses of stone gargoyles on cathedral peaks.

THERE COMES a time in the restoration of an old house when the desire to see it finished threatens all those noble aesthetic intentions to see it finished properly.

Our own happiness, therefore, is a by-product of aiming at something else and is not to be obtained by setting our sights on happiness alone.

Good intentions never wrote a story worth reading.

In the gloom, though, Lyra sensed the presence of the Dust, for the air seemed to be full of dark intentions, like the forms of thoughts not yet born.