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Quotes about Intentions


Hell is paved with good intentions.

Samuel Johnson

Hell is full of good intentions.

Miscellaneous Translations

You must never blame yourself for good intentions

Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions.

Source Unknown

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

William Hazlitt

An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.

H. Powers

Hell is paved with good intentions.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]

Thomas Gray

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

Peter Mcwilliams

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Robert Brault

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

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.

Portuguese Proverb

People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?

Kirstie Alley

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

James Russell Lowell

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. [Lat., Imago animi vultus est, indices oculi.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

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