Good Intentions Quotes
185 quotes by 162 authors
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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
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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
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Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
— Grenville Kleiser
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A good intention clothes itself with power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People with good intentions never give up!
— Jane Smiley
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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
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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
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History is a better guide than good intentions.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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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
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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.
— Peter Drucker
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
— Milton Friedman
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My good intentions are completely lethal.
— Margaret Atwood
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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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