Top 100 Quotes About Good Intentions
#1. I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.
Leonid Hurwicz
#2. The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.
Shirley Hazzard
#3. It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.
Mel Smith
#4. Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser
#5. Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.
Michael Josephson
#6. Quite clearly, the one thing the dominant culture cannot tolerate or co-opt is compassion, the ability to stand in solidarity with the victims of the present order. It can manage charity and good intentions, but it has no way to resist solidarity with pain or grief. So
Walter Brueggemann
#7. Half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
Maria Edgeworth
#8. 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
#9. Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.
Terry Pratchett
#10. Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.
Michael Cunningham
#11. For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.
David Limbaugh
#12. But a society that protects some people through a safety net of schools, government-backed home loans, and ancestral wealth but can only protect you with the club of criminal justice has either failed at enforcing its good intentions or has succeeded at something much darker.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#14. Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Robert Breault
#16. 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
#17. Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in "No-Till" by Basil Pearl.
Basil Pearl
#18. In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences
Alija Izetbegovic
#19. Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
Charles Simmons
#20. While evidence says that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, they're probably all on first steps.
Terry Pratchett
#21. Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions had miscarried, and bad ones had not improved.
Joseph Heller
#22. 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 M. Banks
#23. All bad art is the result of good intentions.
Oscar Wilde
#24. Lord, save him from those with good intentions, for they tended to leave the worst damage.
J. Fally
#25. Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions
Tom Rath
#26. Week 51:
Believe that everyone has good intentions, and keep yours the same.
Ali Marsman
#27. All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else's poor decision making.
Joshua Ferris
#28. While the road of good intentions might end in hell, the people who tried to fill the potholes along the way deserved at least some credit.
Stephen King
#29. Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!
Brigham Young
#30. For many of the dying, intensive care, with its isolation among strangers, extinguishes their hope of not being abandoned in the last hours. If fact, they are abandoned, to the good intentions of highly skilled professional personnel who barely know them.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#31. I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#35. In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.
Douglas Crockford
#36. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights
Garry Kasparov
#37. Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter F. Drucker
#38. We may mean them in the moment the words leave our lips, but as time goes on, good intentions get rubbed raw by failed expectations.
Kandi Steiner
#40. As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg.
I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#41. There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.
Mark Lawrence
#42. It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
Anne Bronte
#43. People with good intentions never give up!
Jane Smiley
#44. Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude,
Jean Chretien
#45. I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations.
Jennifer Lopez
#46. I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
Marcus Aurelius
#47. Be deaf to those who love you most of all; they pray for bad things with good intentions.
Seneca.
#48. A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.
Dylan Thomas
#49. Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.
John C. Maxwell
#50. For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum
#51. Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.
Tim Walberg
#52. Everything starts out as just friends, right? Everything. But then things change and suddenly you're in love with someone and your whole world is flipped upside down ... But you always have good intentions. Everything always starts out as just friends.
Alysha Speer
#53. People that do good in the world or that want to do good, that have good intentions and want to help other people, and people that aren't concerned with themselves but more [with] others and helping in service of others - that inspires me.
Daniella Alonso
#54. Good intentions are not enough; commitment and sacrifice are necessary.
Laurence Boldt
#55. (P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
Gayle Forman
#56. I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.
Andrew Sullivan
#57. My road to hell isn't paved with good intentions - or bad - it's just my road.
Rainbow Rowell
#58. In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor.
Tim O'Brien
#61. Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.
Andre Geim
#62. ...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.
Jeffrey Goldberg
#63. There's no fair swap for truth, son, not even with good intentions."
-Jones
Janelle Taylor
#64. Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.
Claudio Sanchez
#65. Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.
Monte Irvin
#66. When you do something with all your heart and good intentions the small life turns magical.
Bella Meraki
#67. Since good intentions and sympathy for others often led people into trouble, the Chinese people had invented a new proverb that said, 'The more you do, the more trouble you have; the less you do, the less trouble you have. If you do nothing whatever, you will become a model citizen.
Nien Cheng
#68. Books provide a handy shorthand when Rory's mostly MIA father, Christopher, is first introduced to viewers. Christopher's offer to buy Rory the Compact Oxford English Dictionary she covets is sincere; his lack of ability to follow through on his good intentions is Christopher in a nutshell.
Jennifer Crusie
#69. 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
#70. Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.
Tim Fargo
#72. He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Graham Greene
#73. Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.
Michelle Sagara West
#74. Sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#75. There is nothing like raising a child in a home filled with love and respect ... to watch them blossom as an adult, filled with hopes and dreams and good intentions. Dedicated to our son, my coauthor, J.R. Matheson. We wish you all the best Justin! Love you.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#76. Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.
Zach Wamp
#77. If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.
Craig Groeschel
#78. The worst kind of lie - the kind shrouded in good intentions. The kind cowards use to justify their weakness.
Renee Ahdieh
#80. For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
Margaret Thatcher
#81. Capitalism, it turns out, can achieve what charity and good intentions sometimes cannot. Microfinance has done more to bolster the status of women, and to protect them from abuse, than any laws could accomplish.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#82. It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.
Miranda July
#83. Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!
Napoleon Hill
#84. Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy, committing small forces as an earnest of good intentions, heedless of their gross inadequacy for the military purpose at hand.
Max Hastings
#85. Today I am so grateful that God knows my heart.
Others may misunderstand my good intentions,
judge my words or deeds, find fault,
or blame what they truly do not understand.
But God knows my heart.
He knows I am learning, trying, endeavoring,
to be all He created me to be.
Lori Nawyn
#86. Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#87. why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#88. The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
Debbie Ford
#89. The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.
Shania Twain
#90. I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint.
Charlotte Bronte
#91. The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.
Charles Krauthammer
#92. It's not enough that we voice good intentions. We must back them with action.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#93. The good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again alone.
Marcel Proust
#94. Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you.
Leo
Lisa Kleypas
#96. I have always maintained that if you work hard, it won't go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.
Suresh Raina
#97. Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Bob Dylan
#98. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
Daniel Webster
#99. And good intentions? These scared him the most: people with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for.
Shanthi Sekaran
#100. I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.
Cindy Gallop
