Top 205 Intentions Quotes

I learned that as much as you think when you’re walking down that aisle that this forever, sometimes it’s just not forever. You can have the best of intentions.

I’m 100 percent sure the love and energy we give to a project will end up inside of it. I think it’s important that when we work on something, we do it with positive intentions, because this energy will be sensed in the design.

I’ve learned that the more I streamline what my actual tasks are and where I’d like to direct my energy, as opposed to where I let my energy go in an unaware state of mind, the more energy I have to place where my intentions are. Boundaries are good! Use them and know where they are.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

I prefer active vacations. I really like the adventure aspect of it, and I also like a trip with intentions, where something will be gained on the other side of it. But I also like the option to just be there.

Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted with issues like child care.

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda’s intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

I want to do a project with the right intentions – not money or popularity or to be busy. I’m not even concerned about being ‘out of sight, out of mind’ because if that’s the motivation, then I won’t give my 110% to the work.

When the rule of law is being perverted to the rule of the ‘good intentions’ of unelected judges, it is time for serious study of Thomas Paine and Sam Adams as much as Washington and Madison.

I am conservative, there’s no doubt about it. But you can be conservative and still work with people, and that’s what my intentions are.

The premise of ‘Deadline’ forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it’s sometimes found and sometimes not.

Even with the best of intentions, even when they’re very smart and knowledgeable – as opposed to George W., who is neither – it doesn’t seem to matter.

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.

I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

The place where the system and people’s intentions meet is the political arena.

I think I’ll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.

I’ve dealt with a lot of people with bad intentions. Just because somebody has a following does not mean that they are a good person or a good friend.

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

President Obama’s first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

Every child thinks archaeology is about digging up land to find dinosaur remains and gold. I had the same intentions.

A court’s assessment of an agency’s compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency’s policy is good or whether the agency’s intentions are laudatory.

You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people’s intentions are.

The most important thing, to me is the intention of where things come from, like, why did you use it? What were the intentions of what you did? And if the intention is good, the intention is pure, then everything will turn out good.

I actually always have good intentions.

Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves.

You always question people’s intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.

I think it makes such a huge difference when the director has acting experience as well because it just means that he not only has a view of the film as a whole and the intentions of the scene in terms of the audience, he also has an actor’s instinct of how to communicate something to us.

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

There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation’s capital having good intentions – and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.

To me, words convey feelings, and feelings are just vibrations that we feel, so words are never as authentic as what feelings are and what intentions are.

Polls can change; people’s opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn’t try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don’t try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

If people hate Michael Langdon, that’s a good thing. I’m not going to debate that. I don’t worry about making him likeable… My real focus in playing Langdon is making his intentions clear and how he operates and what his mission is and how he shapes the perception of who he is around people.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot ‘carry out’ His intentions, it would seem.

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.

I’m a good guy with a good heart, and I have good intentions.

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

I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to see New Zealand flourish.

People ask what are my intentions with my films – my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

I’ve seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders’ best intentions.

I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

Shakespeare gives you these clues – these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It’s like a gift.

We need true free thinkers, people who really say what they feel and have good, genuine intentions.

We get so caught up in doing everything for ourselves, including inspiring ourselves, that it’s exhausting and not at all useful. Take a look around you. Look at your friends. Open up to your friends and take in the caring and good intentions they hold toward you.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don’t write the songs anyhow. So if you’re lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you’re lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this.