Good Intentions famous quotes

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences
-- Alija Izetbegovic

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When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.
-- Blake Shelton

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Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

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Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
-- Charles Simmons

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Do any of us know how we’re actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?
-- Cheryl Heller

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The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action
-- Cindy Gallop

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In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.
-- Douglas Crockford

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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
-- Edward Albee

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(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
-- Gayle Forman

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You don’t make art out of good intentions.
-- Gustave Flaubert

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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
-- James C. Collins

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Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
-- Jane Smiley

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Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude,
-- Jean Chretien

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History is a better guide than good intentions.
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick

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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 know you're not going to make them at all.
-- Jeffrey Kluger

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My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.
-- Jim Goad

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The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.
-- John Hamill

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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
-- John Ortberg

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It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.
-- Joseph Addison

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There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.
-- Laura Lippman

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Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo
-- Lisa Kleypas

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My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood

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There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work.
-- Maria Kang

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... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.
-- Mary Parker Follett

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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 mesh.
-- Mike Pence

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There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
-- Milton Friedman

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Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!
-- Napoleon Hill

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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
-- Oscar Wilde

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We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
-- Peter Abelard

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Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
-- Peter Drucker

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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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I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.
-- Pipilotti Rist

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Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.
-- R.L. LaFevers

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A good intention clothes itself with power.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.
-- Sherrilyn Kenyon

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So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
-- Suze Orman

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Hell is full of good intentions.
-- Thomas Gray

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We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.
-- Tom Selleck

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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
-- Warren Christopher

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Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.
-- Amy Chan

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It's not enough to have good intentions. If you want to be a good person, you have to make good decisions all the time and live a life that's worth living and that you can be proud of, and that's what I wanted.
-- Benjamin Booker

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Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.
-- Claudio Sanchez

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Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.
-- Arthur Jensen

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Do any of us know how we’re actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?
-- Cheryl Heller

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