Quotes About Intentions

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

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.

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.

The Road to Hell is Paved With Bad Intentions

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

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

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

When you do something with all your heart and good intentions the small life turns magical.