Good Intentions Quotes

185 Good Intentions quotes by 160 unique authors

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are… — Ben Harper
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… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. — Aldous Huxley
There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you… — Jeffrey Kluger
Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails. — Rush Limbaugh
Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone. — Harvey Mackay
Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut. — Joyce Meyer
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption… — Dee Dee Myers
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. — Suze Orman
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through… — Mike Pence
One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs… — Martin Scorsese
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. — Robert Southey
I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your… — J. Michael Straczynski
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. — Margaret Thatcher
I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the… — Thom Yorke
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. — Augusten Burroughs
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be… — Terry Goodkind
And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that… — Barack Obama
You don’t make art out of good intentions. — Gustave Flaubert
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything,… — Charles Baudelaire
Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be… — Michael Cunningham
No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance.… — Albert Camus
You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and… — Edward Albee
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough… — Booth Tarkington

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