Best Intentions Quotes

• Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Heart, Thoughtful

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• It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Work, Government

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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• Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

  Aldous Huxley

  Good Intentions, Hell, Intention

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Hate, War

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

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• 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 an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

  Terry Goodkind

  Kindness, Understanding, Sound

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• We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

  Amy Dickinson

  Intention

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• Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.

  Tonya Hurley

  Offering, Advice, Helping

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• No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Television interview, 6 Jan. 1986, in The Times 12 Jan. 1986

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Future, Entrepreneur

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• I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Years, Ideas, Perfection

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

  Sarah Dessen

  Way, Intention

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• Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.

  Stevie Nicks

  One Day, Intention, Turns

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• We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Judging, Noble

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• Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Emotion, Easy, Intention

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.645, Macmillan

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• This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

  Lord Byron

  Birthday, Soul, Age

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.170, Routledge

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• So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

  Suze Orman

  Dream, Good Intentions, Financial

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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

  Defense, Way, Good Intentions

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• Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

  Tom Petty

  Sky, Horizon, Intention

  Song: All The Wrong Reasons

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• Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Promise, World

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.138, AudioInk

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• Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lying, Confusion, Needs

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1998). “Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew”, The Eighth Mountain Press

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• Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

  Terry Goodkind

  Wizards, Intention, Results

  Terry Goodkind (2017). “Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness: The Nicci Chronicles”, p.381, Macmillan

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• You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

  Corey Taylor

  World, Intention, Ifs

  Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.99, Da Capo Press

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• As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Elephants, World

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

  Lauren DeStefano

  Curiosity, Intention

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spring, Intellectual, World

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