Action Quote by Thomas Jefferson

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

— Blaise Pascal

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

— Moliere

Good intentions don't really matter if they don't lead to good actions. Sometimes those with good intentions do us more harm than good.

— Ash Sweeney

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

— Ayn Rand

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

— Samuel Butler

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

— Alija Izetbegovic

“Before we set out to do good, it is necessary to consider if it will result in evil. It is equally necessary to know…

— Osho

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be…

— Vernor Vinge

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

— Eugene Ionesco

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of…

— George Eliot