Best 115 quotes in «good intentions quotes» category

A promise kept is trust coming to life. A promise kept is more powerful than a good intention, a thought or any material comfort. A promise kept tells the other person they are valued, respected and loved.

This doesn't mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and change. It means that we stop respecting and evaluating people based on what we think they should accomplish, and start respecting them for who they are and holding them accountable for what they're actually doing. It means that we stop loving people for who they could be and start loving them for who they are. It means that sometimes when we're beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, "Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now.

To keep on receiving, you must keep giving.

We are strengthening by different experiences in life; Sad times, happy moments. Poverty, riches. Failure, success. Troubles, good times. Losing, winning.

Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Touched by an act of kindness, be kind to others.

We are all vessels of good honour.

We can all produce good fruits with fertile soil.

What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

You have to make an enemy a friend to conquer his or her evil intentions.

Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God’s special possession.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

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

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

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

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

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.

Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

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

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

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

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

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

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

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

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

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

It's not enough to have good intentions. If you want to be a good person, you have to make good decisions all the time and live a life that's worth living and that you can be proud of, and that's what I wanted.

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

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.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

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

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

People with good intentions never give up!

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.

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

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.