Quotes of: Good-intentions Keyword

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness an...

The Things They Carried

If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will f...

Prayer for Beginners

Unless you interfere with your belief system, which is where you make most of your decisions, you will recreate the status quo.

When Good Intentions Run Smack Into Reality: Twelve Lessons to Coach Yourself and OThers to Peek Performance

Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

The School for Good and Evil

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of control. ...Sometime...

Harmless

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Walt Kelly

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

Sean Bean

The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but good intentions, of ignorance but devotion, of torment but martyrdom, we must nearly always say yes or no...The monaster...

Les Misérables

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Lao Tzu

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Ben Harper

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Good intention bring success in everything you do. Intention is always supported by the universal energy because it’s a vital ingredient for manifestation.

Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment

Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it. When you say, "It is my dominant intent to look for things that feel good today. No matter where I'm going, no matter who I'm doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for what I'm wan...

Abraham Hicks

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.

Fred Thompson

Past behaviours are a good indicator of someones present intentions...

Brian "Fred Worm" MacGregor

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Xun Zi

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Gian Carlo Menotti

To do things wrong with best intentions is better than acting to the letter of the law with evil intentions.

Hebrew

Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are reproached with raising, erecting, and heapin...

Les Misérables

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

Tales from Earthsea

Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.

Alphonsus Liguori