Good Intentions Quotes - Page 4

• Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

  James C. Collins

  Decision, Good To Great, Made

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• 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 we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Giving, Justice

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.96, Canongate Books

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• ... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Problem, Solve, Sufficient

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• One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Views, People

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Ideas, Self

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• Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

  Iain Banks

  Devil, Details, Hell

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• Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

  Edward Albee

  Intention

  Edward Albee (2003). “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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  A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

  Paul Newman

  Men, Belief, Action

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

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• I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Stories, Want

  Interview with Faith L. Justice, www.salon.com. January 23, 2001.

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• Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Jesus, Effort

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.262, Thomas Nelson

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• Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

  Ken Blanchard

  Attitude, Matter, Happens

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2015

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• A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Feet, Clothes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press

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• We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long as he dwells in our hearts and blinds the eyes of the heart with his somber disorders, we can neither discriminate what is for our good, nor achieve spiritual knowledge, nor fulfill our good intentions, nor participate in true life; and our intellect will remain impervious to the contemplation of the true, divine light; for it is written, 'Man's anger does not bring about the righteousness of God' (Jms. 1:20).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Eye

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• Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Hands, Evil

  Bob Dylan (2006). “Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte”, p.896, Feltrinelli Editore

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• I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, Heaven, Action

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• At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother.

  John of Kronstadt

  Brother, Enmity, Steps

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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

  Goal, Way, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• O, how easy it would appear to be to live in simplicity and love, and yet how difficult it is for our corrupt hearts to live in love!

  John of Kronstadt

  Heart, Simplicity, And Love

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• Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

  Cindy Gallop

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Missing

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• If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

  Cindy Gallop

  Together, World, Tangible

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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

  Hard Work, Know How, Knows

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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

  Thinking, Politics, Corruption

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• We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Regret, Yesterday

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• The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.

  Jon Pareles

  Issues, Ecosystems, Effort

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• An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions.

  Vincent de Paul

  Leadership, Christian, Country

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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