Best Intentions Quotes

“Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness.

We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Some of the worst things are done with the best intentions, Petra,” August said. “You shouldn’t have done this to me.”
― Kris Noel, Prime

“She hated the old woman who had twisted her so in the name of love. Most humans didn’t love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn’t overcome it all the time.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“It’s a sad truth that in life, the people who hurt us the most are also the people who love us the most, and that they often do so with the best of intentions.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“...best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.”
― Alexandra Zapruder, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film

“People usually consider an active and proactive approach as a human virtue. However, sometimes doing nothing is the best choice we can make. If an already difficult situation becomes worse as a consequence of our doing, there is absolutely no excuse for us, regardless of the fact that we acted with the best intentions.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“It's so much easier to know what's best
than to do what's best.

- Choices”
― Kae Tempest, Divisible by Itself and One

“Sometimes it is better to stay out of confusing situations, because your actions and words can be misrepresented, even with the best intentions in the world.”
― Jasmina Alexander, MY LIFE IN QUOTES