Intentions Quotes

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Alone, Before

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

Good, Power, Create

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Wisdom, Done

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

Good, Ignorance, Evil

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama

Best, Equality, Mistakes

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

Good, Money, Remember

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing, Human, Whole

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

Good, Hell, Yes

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Good, Someone, Effort

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

Work, Good, Hard

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

Good, Pretty, Hell

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

Life, Good, Best

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.
Deepak Chopra

Best, Live, Mind

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Eyes, Soul, Mark

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron

Age, Best, Souls

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Human, Seems, Worse

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
J. Michael Straczynski

Good, Heart, Joy

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

Good, May, Wrong

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.
Rush Limbaugh

Good, Said, Place

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
King Hassan II

Down, Quite, Meet

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

Good, Heart, Bad

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Robert Brault

Good, Object, Prayers

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Roberto Burle Marx

Artist, Color, Garden

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.
Angie Stone

Person, Giving, Might

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
Bryant H. McGill

Belief, Test, Actions

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
Helen Rowland

Life, Girl, Serious

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
Martin Scorsese

Time, Good, Powerful

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
E. Stanley Jones

Results, Actions

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
Andrew Cohen

Ignorance, Enough, Others

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.
Simon Mainwaring

Leadership, Everything, Service

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