#Intentions Quotes

“We are not the firstWho with best meaning have incurred the worst”

“Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.”

“There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?”

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

“It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.”

“Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.”

“If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.”

“Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.”

“The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.”

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

“Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.”

“The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.”

“What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.”

“How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.”

“We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.”

“Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.”

“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.”

“Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.”

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

“My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.”

“Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.”

“Let goodness go with the doing.”

“Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.”

“I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.”

“I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.”

“People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.”

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

“Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.”

“Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .”

“Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.”

“If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.”

“There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.”

“Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.”

“He is dead now, but he meant well.”

“In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.”

“A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.”

“It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.”

“It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.”

“‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior”

“The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.”