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Famous Good Intentions Quotes
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
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
The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action — Cindy Gallop
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. — Oscar Wilde
We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we’re judged by our last word. — Tom Selleck
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
For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results. — David Limbaugh
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future. — George Eliot
Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut. — Joyce Meyer
It is a hard, embittering thing to have one’s kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one’s teeth. — Anne Bronte
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. — Robert Southey
Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action! — Napoleon Hill
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say health care; that’s an intention, not an objective. — Peter Drucker
My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions. — Jim Goad
One lives with so many bad deeds on one’s conscience and some good intentions in one’s heart. — John Dewey
Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately! — Brigham Young
Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength. — John F. Kennedy
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. — Suze Orman
In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences — Alija Izetbegovic
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions. — James C. Collins
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom. — William Hazlitt
All bad art is the result of good intentions. — Oscar Wilde
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep. — Charles Simmons
A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result. — Thomas A. Edison
If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God. — Peter Kreeft
Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude, — Jean Chretien
People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they’d abandon it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions. — Laura Lippman
I’m very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic. — Warren Christopher
Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact. — Claudio Sanchez
An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions. — Michael Josephson
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast. — John Ortberg
People’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins. — Gayle Forman
Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. — Aldous Huxley
You don’t make art out of good intentions. — Gustave Flaubert
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention. — Peter Drucker
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. — Edward Albee
Don’t ever trust men with good intentions. They’ll always disappoint you. Leo — Lisa Kleypas
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention. — Peter Abelard
People with good intentions never give up! — Jane Smiley
The streets of hell are paved with good intentions. — Shania Twain
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved. — William James
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions. — Jane Smiley
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
Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success. — Napoleon Hill
My good intentions are completely lethal. — Margaret Atwood
My nature is to provoke, that’s true. I can’t help myself. But it’s always with good intentions. — Madonna Ciccone
Hell is full of good intentions. — Thomas Gray
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
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. — Charles R. Swindoll
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh. — Mike Pence
Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore. — David Platt
Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that’s about it, because everything they do fails. — Rush Limbaugh
Good intentions are no substitute for obedience. — Norman Vincent Peale
I don’t give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. — Madonna Ciccone
Hell is full of good intentions and wills. — Saint Francis de Sales
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results. — Thomas Sowell
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. — Graham Greene
History is a better guide than good intentions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good. — Mark Twain
