Quotes About Intentions

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Judging others' intentions is the right of God alone. We don't have this right, and it is poor manners with God.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

Bad decisions, good intentions.

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

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

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

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

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.

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

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

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

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

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

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

Hell is full of good intentions.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

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.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.