Best Intentions Quotes - Page 2

• To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Responsibility, People, Temptation

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Mistake

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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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; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Soul, Age

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• A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.

  Wes Fesler

  Parent, Attention, Intention

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• The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

  Chris Crutcher

  Believe, Character, Redemption

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• I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

  Carl Lewis

  Ideas, Voice, People

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• Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.

  Richard Moss

  Relationship, Past, Support You

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• We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.

  Dean Koontz

  Two, Darkness, Despair

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• There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Attitude, World, Film

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• People with the best intentions will often give you advice on why you shouldn’t take a risk because of what could happen. While some of what they say may be true, you should never allow them to get their negative anchors into your mind because, like them, you too will begin to sink. Next time this happens, throw them a life-line, and ask them what is good about their situation.

  Bob Proctor

  Anchors, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 17, 2013

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• Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing art for the right reasons, um, and with the best intentions. Anything at all is completely possible and I think that's what I like about drawing. I think it's just really fun. You can do anything you want. And that's part of, like, what's really enjoyable about it... is kind of losing yourself in it.

  Gerard Way

  Art, Fun, Thinking

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• We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Running, Jobs, Rain

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Quality Not Quantity, Long, Mind

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 3)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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• The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

  Vijay Prashad

  Often Is, Tolerance, Culture

  Vijay Prashad (2001). “Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity”

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• In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.

  Bryan Robson

  Technology, Minorities, Crowds

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• Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. Mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion - that is all "our" doing, "our" invention: the invention of the intellectuals. If only we would stop setting man against man - often with the best intentions - much would be gained. Nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.

  Karl Popper

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.189, Routledge

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• If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, People, May

  "Williams' Case". 1797.

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• It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film like Titanic. To have somebody that talented to work against, who's also your friend and who you know you have the best intentions for and vice versa, and who you intrinsically trust to give you their forthright honest opinion about what we're both doing - all that's something you can't really buy.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Giving, Vices, Who You Know

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• Manifesting the blessings is not really anything that is complicated or even difficult. Clear out what is not serving you or no longer actively being utilized. Give and share joyously. Receive graciously. Make amends. Adorn yourself first with inner beauty so the outer beauty may benefit from your best intentions. Contribute more than you take. Make each place you find yourself better than you found it. Be an abundant source of good tidings to and from God. In short, let go and let God.

  John Morton

  Letting Go, Blessing, Giving

  John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.162, Mandeville Press

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• The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

  Les Brown

  Intention, Given

  Les Brown (1998). “It's Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What the Obstacle”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Real, Mind

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• There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  World, Way, Intention

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• Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive people and move to a new land. Where they thrived. And became an oppressive people. You get certain people on the same continent, there's going to be a problem. Pilgrims and Indians. Protestants, Catholics. My family, anybody else's family.

  Christopher Titus

  Moving, Holiday, Land

  "Titus / The Perfect Thanksgiving". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

  Ariel Pink

  Thinking, Intention, Music Is

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