Quotes of: Best-intentions Keyword

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

Suze Orman

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Ben Jonson

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Gustave Flaubert

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We mak...

Patch Adams

Many people in Nixon’s camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn’t designed to fail, but it wasn’t designed to succeed, either; the intent behind it was not rooted in a desire to help black people attain equal standing in society. I...

Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.

Big Picture

The system you work in does not tell you who you get to be; you decide who you get to be.

Leading with Intention: Every Moment Is a Choice

Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.

Tim Fargo

What is first? Love or life? Life or love? Intention or emotions? Emotions or intentions?

Debasish Mridha

The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening.

Clarissa Ward

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

When our actions are based on good intentions our soul has not regrets.

Anthony Douglas Williams

Unfortunately most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

The Sun Watches the Sun

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

Aldous Huxley

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

E. Stanley Jones

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Curtis Jackson

The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are usi...

David Lloyd

Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist