Quotes about 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.

Passion is the fuel in the engine of your purpose. It's your "want-to." It's what keeps you going when mundane tasks bore you or difficult ones dissuade you. Passion is what keeps you moving in the direction your best intentions want you to go.

Our lives are shaped by others literally from birth, and even the best of intentions can result in the most unexpected of hurts.