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  • Intentions count in your actions. -- Abu Bakr
  • Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Intentions of a man reflects in his actions. -- Sukant Ratnakar
  • Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity. -- Shirley Temple
  • Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
  • Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions. -- Jon D Harrison
  • Intentions are nice, but ultimately intentions don't really matter because they only exist inside you. -- Kelly Williams Brown
  • Intentions alone amount to nought. It's in action, not inaction that we can become all we can be -- Constance Chuks Friday
  • Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. -- Peter Drucker
  • The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. -- Suze Orman
  • Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. -- Milton Friedman
  • Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. -- Aldous Huxley
  • One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. -- John Dewey
  • No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy. -- Bo Burnham
  • We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation. -- Joe Paterno
  • 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
  • If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors. -- Noel Gallagher
  • 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
  • A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • 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. -- John Yoo
  • Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates. -- Tim Walberg
  • Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay. -- Angie Stone
  • Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome. -- Monte Irvin
  • I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions. -- Cindy Gallop
  • A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. -- Roberto Burle Marx
  • 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. -- Colin Firth
  • The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power. -- Gary Zukav
  • You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life. -- Patch Adams
  • It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it. -- Lupe Fiasco
  • INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL -- James Hunter
  • INTENTIONS - ACTION = SQUAT -- James Hunter
  • Bad decisions, good intentions. -- Drake
  • Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. -- Oscar Wilde
  • My intentions create my reality. -- Wayne Dyer
  • Our intentions create our reality. -- Wayne Dyer
  • ... love always betrays its intentions. -- Marthe Bibesco
  • Your intentions create your experiences. -- Doreen Virtue
  • My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood
  • Habits eat good intentions for breakfast. -- John Ortberg
  • There are no accidents without intentions -- Alex Miller
  • Hell is full of good intentions. -- Thomas Gray
  • Im a peaceful man with bad intentions. -- Charlie Sheen
  • People with good intentions never give up! -- Jane Smiley
  • Every punch was thrown with bad intentions. -- Mike Tyson
  • You create your reality with your intentions. -- Gary Zukav
  • Good intentions are no substitute for obedience. -- Norman Vincent Peale
  • For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results. -- David Limbaugh
  • Your intentions have more impact than your actions. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
  • Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions. -- John Irving
  • Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results. -- Pharrell Williams
  • With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved. -- William James
  • Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions. -- Emil Ludwig
  • The gap between intentions and actions is character. -- Orrin Woodward
  • Hell is full of good intentions and wills. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • History is a better guide than good intentions. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Hell is not all paved with bad intentions. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • You don't make art out of good intentions. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Words are not that important when you recognize intentions. -- Isabel Allende
  • A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention. -- Wes Fesler
  • Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light. -- Wislawa Szymborska
  • Everyone is curious about the intentions of their enemies. -- Jung Woo
  • I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic. -- Warren Christopher
  • Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • All bad art is the result of good intentions. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. -- Edward Albee
  • ... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems. -- Mary Parker Follett
  • Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves. -- R.L. LaFevers
  • Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • The road to hell is paved with good intentions. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions. -- Dave Champion
  • The streets of hell are paved with good intentions. -- Shania Twain
  • I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions ... -- Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Be careful when you set intentions; they just might manifest. -- Russell Eric Dobda
  • Bad words don't exist, but words with bad intentions behind. -- Roberto Fontanarrosa
  • Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. -- Jimmy Breslin
  • A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions. -- Rembrandt
  • In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter. -- David Horowitz
  • In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences -- Alija Izetbegovic
  • I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions. -- Thucydides
  • There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions. -- Milton Friedman
  • Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions. -- Sarah Dessen
  • Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers. -- Corey Taylor
  • Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions. -- James C. Collins
  • Good intentions are not enough; commitment and sacrifice are necessary. -- Laurence Boldt
  • Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure. -- Rachel Cohn
  • We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions. -- Stephen Covey
  • Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. -- E. Stanley Jones
  • We are not our best intentions. We are what we do. -- Amy Dickinson
  • There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords. -- George Carlin
  • He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. -- Graham Greene
  • Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action! -- Napoleon Hill
  • Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions. -- Tom Petty
  • State intentions every day. Create action plans to achieve your intention. -- Mallika Chopra
  • Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude, -- Jean Chretien
  • My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality. -- Mike Tyson
  • Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. -- Ted Koppel
  • Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you. -- Alan Cohen
  • Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are. -- Orrin Woodward
  • An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions. -- Michael Josephson
  • By the end of the date, your intentions should be clear. -- Auliq Ice
  • I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy. -- Leslie Jones
  • When your intentions are pure, so too will be your success. -- Charles F. Glassman
  • I've never had any intentions of taking a break (from boxing). -- Sergio Martinez
  • Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions. -- Chris Brogan
  • Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter. -- Tim Fargo
  • Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. -- Robert Breault
  • There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions. -- Pen Densham
  • The smallest of action is better than the greatest of intentions. -- Mohammed Imran Uddin Uddin
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