Good Intentions Quotes

185 quotes by 162 authors

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… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
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… — Albert Camus
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds. — Grenville Kleiser
A good intention clothes itself with power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with good intentions never give up! — Jane Smiley
Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard… — John C. Maxwell
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions. — Milton Friedman
History is a better guide than good intentions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government… — George Washington
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. — George Bernard Shaw
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not… — Norman Angell
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective. — Peter Drucker
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. — Samuel Johnson
As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in… — Dean Koontz
It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be based on good… — Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a… — Mel Smith
And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up to bad things… — Michelle Yeoh
There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions. — Milton Friedman
My good intentions are completely lethal. — Margaret Atwood
In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and… — Basil King

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