Good Intentions Quotes - Page 8

• Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.

  Paul Gambaccini

  Alchemist, Guarantees, Evening

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• For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.

  David Limbaugh

  Intention, Results, Trump

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• Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

  Mark Twain

  Evil, Half, Results

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• Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is.

  Wesley Pruden

  Jobs, Fighting, Cutting

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• Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.

  Willard Gaylin

  Men, Egalitarianism, Differences

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• Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Political, Pay

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• Honesty, good intentions and industry, you will have of course. Without these your career would soon end with the loss of your good name. But you must be ambitious to be a good deal more. Webb Hayes, his son, went on to found what had become the Union Carbide Corporation.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Honesty, Son, Loss

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• One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.

  James Hollis

  Jobs, Powerful, Book

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.41, Inner City Books

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• It's not enough to have good intentions. If you want to be a good person, you have to make good decisions all the time and live a life that's worth living and that you can be proud of, and that's what I wanted.

  Benjamin Booker

  Decision, Proud, Good Person

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The history of English is full of that, lots of things done with good intentions that 200 years down the road have resulted in a giant mess, where someone's pet peeves - like John Dryden and his hatred of terminal prepositions - could become real standards.

  Kory Stamper

  Real, Hatred, Pet

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Intention, Tragic, Hard

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mistake, Responsibility, Would Be

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Veganism gives people an actual chance to DO SOMETHING instead of adding more cement (good intentions) to pave that road to Hell.

  Gary Yourofsky

  People, Giving, Chance

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• The left has done a very admirably good job of demonizing the private sector, where what happens? Cheating, lying, dishonesty, destroying the planet, killing customers, starving people. And they've positioned themselves, of course, as the great compassionate last hope. They're the ones who truly care. We're not supposed to examine the results of their efforts, which are always dismal and always fail. We're supposed to examine their good intentions.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cheating, Jobs, Lying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

  Joe Biden

  War, Cancer, Army

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You know why I love Chicago? Because this is just like Baltimore. Like, you can't go to Baltimore and be fake. They gonna point you right out, like, "Nah, you fake, go ahead outta here." They're going to chew you up and spit you out if you're fake. And if you come to Chicago, you can't be fake, in terms of the love and the concern. You gotta be real. Your good intentions - people want to feel that. We don't get enough of that.

  Felicia Pearson

  Real, People, Fake

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• 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

  Helping Others, People, Inspire

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• I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.

  Munir Butt

  Disappointment, Party, Blow

  Foreign Affairs, 2009.

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• Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.

  Claudio Sanchez

  People, Sometimes, Intention

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• My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Trying, Sometimes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Adventure, Thinking, Welfare Programs

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• As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

  Jayni Chase

  Selfish, People, Decision

  "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Making Changes, Stores, Plans

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• Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Uncomfortable

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.605, ShandonPress

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• Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Labor, Sufficient

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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