INTENTION QUOTES

quotations about intentions

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

KARL MARX

Capital

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Intentions are simply the intentional exercises of causal influence, normally via a brain event in order to produce some bodily movement and thereby affect the world in a certain way.

RICHARD SWINBURNE

Mind, Brain, and Free Will

Tags: Algernon Charles Swinburne


The consciousness of good intentions, however unsuccessful, affords a joy more real, pure, and agreeable to nature than all the other means that can be furnished, either for obtaining one's desire or quieting the mind.

FRANCIS BACON

"Man's Duty to Society", Physical and Metaphysical Works

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If you don't want to just live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

SUNDAY ADELAJA

How To Become Great Through Time Conversion


The ablest diplomat will never boast of understanding a man, but only his intentions.

WILLIAM BOLITHO

Twelve Against the Gods

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Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

IAIN M. BANKS

Transition

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Truth can only be found in a person's record of actions, not their list of intentions.

SUZY KASSEM

Rise Up and Salute the Sun


A man's intentions change with the wind. They change every time he combs his hair, every time he gets behind the wheel of his car, every time he sees a good-looking woman, every time he pushes on his sunglasses and thinks maybe he's the coolest guy on the planet.

THOMAS WILLIAM SIMPSON

The Hancock Boys


Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

JAMES A. OWEN

The Shadow Dragons


A lifetime can pass in the snap of a finger, and good intentions are never realized.

JOHN ORTBERG

The Stepping Out in Faith

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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

WILLIAM A. FOSTER

quoted in Igniting the Spirit at Work: Daily Reflections


The difference between good and bad intentions is this: that good intentions are so very satisfactory in themselves, that it really seems a work of supererogation to carry them into execution; whereas evil ones have a restlessness that can only be satisfied by action.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Romance and Reality


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

The Plague

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It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.

ANNE BRONTË

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Let not thy good intentions flatter thee to an evil action; what is essentially evil, no circumstance can make good.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Enchiridion

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Motives do not concern me; they are a dangerous subject with which to deal.

J. KEKEWICH

Whelan v. Palmer, 1888


Good intentions will never justify evil actions, nor will good actions every justify evil intentions.

EMPRESS EUGENIE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Nothing daunts our intentions when they are just.

KATHARINE BLAKE

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is important to announce your intentions at top volume ... or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two


And good intentions? These scared him the most: people with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for.

SHANTHI SEKARAN

Lucky Boy