Top 100 Quotes About Good Intentions
#1. The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
Thomas Sowell
#2. It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.
Cecilia Grant
#3. Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.
Camille Paglia
#4. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.
Bob Mcdowell
#5. Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.
Robin LaFevers
#6. He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter - a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly.
Walter Mosley
#7. But it really all boils down to this - we don't know them, for all our sincerity, our good intentions. We don't know, because we were never one of them.
F. Sionil Jose
#8. Formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals.
Veronica Roth
#9. Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time - and have so often in them some narcotic which develops an inner gaze instead of a resilience that begets energy.
Soren Kierkegaard
#10. Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.
Alan Cohen
#11. Only good intentions may not always translate into good results.
Girdhar Joshi
#12. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. (This is not actually true. The raid to Hell is paved with frozen door-to-door salesman. On weekends, many of the younger demons go ice skating down it.)
Terry Pratchett
#13. He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions
but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close.
Stephen King
#14. It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.
Stephen R. Covey
#15. It is quite normal to see good intentions, when not carried out with moderation, urging men to actions which are truly vicious.
Michel De Montaigne
#16. Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
Mark Twain
#17. As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce ...
Jacqueline Novogratz
#18. However, in the virtual world of social networks, we get attracted to identities that are virtual. We don't know who is behind them and what their intentions are. Sometimes, they are just predators looking for easy prey. And they are very good at what they do.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#19. And yet, far off, I can hear something whispering that this compulsion to do, to intrude ourselves, to improve on what is
even when wholly well intentioned, particularly when wholly well intentioned
is the source of all our troubles.
Mark Slouka
#20. Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.
Napoleon Hill
#21. Let me soap you," he murmured.
"Thank you for your good intentions," she said, "but my two hands are quite enough."
"Even if it's just your back," the foreigner begged.
"That would be silly," she said. "People never soap their backs.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#22. But that's the thing about promises, isn't it? They can't always be kept. No matter how good the intentions behind them are.
Kara Terzis
#23. When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
Thomas Sowell
#24. There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will not do it." The other, "I wish to do well, but I have not as much power as I have will; it is this which holds me back." The first fills Hell, the second Paradise.
Francis De Sales
#25. One may be doing all good and right things, but if they aren't done with good intentions, they are futile. Having right intentions is the most important! Even the prayers are of no use if not done in the right earnest!
Neelam Saxena Chandra
#26. No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
#27. To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.
Suzy Kassem
#28. How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth "love," "family" and "friendship" without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.
Donna Lynn Hope
#29. What are you waiting for tomorrow to do? To get done? To achieve? To start? Where your good intentions are disconnecting from the actions you should do for the things you desire?
Tony Curl
#30. The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.
Melissa Auf Der Maur
#31. It occurred to him that he may have led them into a topic he had no intentions of exploring further. Fantasies, sure. Wishes, all the time. But reality? No - this was taboo. This would end in nothing good. She
Marissa Meyer
#32. How can two good people both have such good intentions end up with feelings, derived from all the goodness, that are so incredibly bad?
Colleen Hoover
#33. God save us from people who mean well.
Vikram Seth
#34. No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.
Michael Josephson
#35. How could something that started out with such good intentions end so badly?
Chris Saunders
#36. She did her best but like Uncle E says, sometimes your best just ain't good enough.
Patricia Wood
#38. We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.
Ronald Reagan
#40. In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.
George Washington
#41. Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips.
Irvin S. Cobb
#42. How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
Mark Twain
#43. I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.
Curtis Jackson
#44. Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.
Criss Jami
#45. You ... you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?
What? Oh ... yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?
Edward Albee
#46. Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions.
John Connolly
#47. Maybe the good intentions paving the road to hell are really the dark shadows that line the alley of righteousness?
J.A. Huss
#48. Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
Baba Kalyani
#49. Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.
Joyce Meyer
#50. No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.
Thomas Jefferson
#51. When you help people, don't wait around to hear them say, "Thank you." A lot of times we do good things, but in the back of our mind we're hoping to get some appreciation. But if you make your intentions pure, and you expect only from Allah, He will take more care of you than you could ever imagine.
Nouman Ali Khan
#52. It's exhausting, tiptoeing around someone who barges into your life with good intentions.
Gretta Mulrooney
#53. Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.
Jane Jacobs
#54. Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton Friedman
#55. Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.
Philip K. Dick
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
William James
#60. 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
#61. Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God's special possession.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#62. As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions.
Dean Koontz
#63. Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.
Tucker Max
#64. A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#65. She believed that he believed that, but who set out with anything other than good intentions?
Laila Raimes
#66. You can't go messing around with people's hearts. It never ends well, no matter how good your intentions might be -Daniel
Amanda Hocking
#67. We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.
Joe Paterno
#68. Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master.
Daniel Webster
#69. What's rare is to have a good, strong man, as opposed to a good, weak man. Those are the ones who ruin the world. Men who mean well, but buckle under others' opinions until their good intentions destroy an untold number of lives." My
Sara Raasch
#70. He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).
J.R.R. Tolkien
#72. His heart overflowed with good intentions but his fists felt best covered in blood.
Debra Anastasia
#73. It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
A. N. Wilson
#74. The problem is that no matter how good your intentions, eventually you want to kill someone yourself.
Kenneth Cain
#75. Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
Edward Albee
#76. It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
Robert Southey
#78. Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
Mason Cooley
#79. Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
Jane Smiley
#80. It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.
Jocelyn Murray
#81. You know how they say the path to hell is paved with good intentions? Well, maybe the path to heaven is paved with bad ones.
Jake Coburn
#82. His intentions were good." He kissed the top of her head. "Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you.
Lisa Kleypas
#83. It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.
Dalai Lama
#85. If I did only what I wanted to do, I would not be obedient to the Creator. Sometimes He wants us to do certain things that we may not feel like doing. When it comes to what God asks of us, we need more than good intentions we need to follow through fully.
John Wooden
#86. Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.
Narendra Modi
#87. Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
T. S. Eliot
#89. This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
Dee Dee Myers
#90. Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
Sonya Levien
#91. We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.
Tom Selleck
#92. He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!
Charles Baudelaire
#93. Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.
Orrin Woodward
#94. I have good intentions, but ... But what? But all the time I fail. I hurt the ones I love.
Blake Crouch
#95. One of the most underutilized resources we have on the planet today is the good intentions of citizens and our willingness to make a difference.
Kosha Joubert
#96. o have good intentions is irrelevant and misleading. All evil that has ever been done in the universe was done with good intentions. You must measure effect, impact, and consequence, not intentions. - Holy Scrolls of Soeck, Thirteenth Binding Fifteenth Stanza
Aaron Lee Yeager
#98. Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.
Charles R. Swindoll
#99. There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
Milton Friedman
#100. Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.
Milton Friedman