Quotes about Intentions

Often we judge ourselves by our intentions and everyone else by their actions. It is possible to intend one thing while communicating something totally different. Sometimes our true motives are cleverly hidden even from us.

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

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

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

Integrity largely has to do with purifying our intentions and a growing honesty about our actual motives.

One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

It is love in duties that God regards, more than duties themselves.