Quotes of: Intention Keyword

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

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

The Shadow Dragons

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

The Quiet American

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

Peter Guber

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Dee Dee Myers

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

John Dewey

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Milton Friedman

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

Margaret Thatcher

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

Divided attention destroys best intentions. Singular focus is the friend to success.

Benjamin Lotter

Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity such as watercolor sketching...

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

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

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions.” “The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain,” Chakotay said with equal certai...

Star Trek: Voyager: Children of the Storm

Hell is paved with good intentions.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

Week 51: Believe that everyone has good intentions, and keep yours the same.

Sporadic Memories

Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention.

Voice of Reason

People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.

Richard Phillips