Good Intentions Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

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

Good intentions are not enough; commitment and sacrifice are necessary.

People with good intentions never give up!

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

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 fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

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

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.