Good Intentions Quotes

Bad decisions, good intentions.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

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

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.

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

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

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

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

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.

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

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

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

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.

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

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

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

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Hell is full of good intentions.

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

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work.

Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

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

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

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.

I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

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

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

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

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

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

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.

It's not enough to have good intentions. If you want to be a good person, you have to make good decisions all the time and live a life that's worth living and that you can be proud of, and that's what I wanted.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

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

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

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

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.

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.