Quotes About Intentions

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

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

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

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

Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.

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

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

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

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

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

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

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

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

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

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

For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.

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.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

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.

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

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.