Good Intentions Quotes - Page 9

• Whether the Republicans intentions are good or evil - I pretty much assume that they're evil - but no matter what, man, when the people in charge make giant mistakes, everyone suffers. Even if they do have good intentions, when you make giant mistakes, it's a bad thing.

  Aaron McGruder

  Mistake, Men, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are some terrific resources on how to find individual purpose but relative resources on how to discover purpose and apply to an organization. My challenge was to show organizations how they could unlock the purpose of their organizations and put it to good use for employees to apply to their own jobs. The net effect is to help individuals, teams and organizations to optimize performance by understanding how to use purpose for good intention.

  John Baldoni

  Team, Understanding, Challenges

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• Wal-Mart, with its legendary focus on customer value in terms of price, is innovating in sustainability. Now, we're beginning to see the mirror image, a convergence, as the not-for-profit sector is beginning to serve more effectively by applying private sector accountability and efficiencies to social needs. This reflects a rising recognition that to serve others best requires more than good intentions; it mandates a focus on real-world results. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are among the most conspicuous advocates and representatives of this transformation.

  James M Strock

  Focus, Accountability, Recognition

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• Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Self Confidence, Race

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• Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

  Jane Smiley

  Lying, Wicked, Delusion

  Jane Smiley (2010). “Duplicate Keys”, p.290, Anchor

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• half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Procrastination, Frustrated, Half

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.363

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• Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Views, Government

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.75

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• 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

  Mind, Action, Goodness

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.76

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• With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

  William James

  Hell, Intention, Mere

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Opportunity, Selfishness, Wicked

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

  Tom Selleck

  Judging, Lasts, Last Words

  Source: www.gq.com

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• 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

  War, Community, Poverty

  "Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics". Book by Charles Krauthammer, 2013.

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• In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing

  Justine Frischmann

  Mean, Oasis, America

  "Elastica Limits". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• A good intention does not mean honor.
  [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Mean, Honor, Doe

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• 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

  Beautiful, Dark, Lesson Learned

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.28, Criss Jami

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• 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

  Clever, Ignorance, Men

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.105, Penguin

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• America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.

  Dick Armey

  Christian, Independent, Government

  "Christians and Big Government - Why faith requires freedom". FreedomWorks (freedomworks.org), October 12, 2006.

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• Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Intention, Working It

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.49, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I have always maintained that if you work hard, it wont 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

  Sports, Moving, Hard Work

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• We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

  Ai Weiwei

  War, Expression, Ignorant

  "Why I'll Stay Away From the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics". www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2008.

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• A promise kept is trust coming to life. A promise kept is more powerful than a good intention, a thought or any material comfort. A promise kept tells the other person they are valued, respected and loved.

  Alex Blackwell

  Powerful, Promise, Comfort

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• 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

  Thinking, Cake, World

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• 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

  Character, Men, Action

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.65, Modern Library

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• You don’t make art out of good intentions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Intention

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• He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

  Graham Greene

  Ignorance, Intention

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