Quotes about intentions

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

— Lord Byron

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

— Winston Churchill

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

— Henry Fielding

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

What is the quality of your intent?

— Thurgood Marshall

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

— George Bernard Shaw

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

— Margaret Thatcher