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• Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

  Harvey Mackay

  People, Goal, Missing

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• No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

  Albert Camus

  Mistake, Blessing, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.131, Vintage

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• 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

  Men, Names, Long

  Edward Albee (2004). “The Collected Plays of Edward Albee”, Overlook Press

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• Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you." Leo

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Intention, Disappoint

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.97, Macmillan

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• (P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

  Gayle Forman

  Wind, Coffins, Boxes

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.92, Penguin

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• I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

  Saul Bellow

  Clever, Thinking, Age

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• If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

  Terence McKenna

  Political, Usual, Agendas

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• In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Intention, Consequence

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• People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Moments, Difficult

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.298, Macmillan

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• I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

  Ilchi Lee

  Believe, Greatness, Desire

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jan 28, 2014

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• 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

  Running, People, Legs

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.303, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trapped in the mire of his own stubbornness. If instead he will go with where he is, only then is there hope. If he will let himself get deeply into the experience of being stuck, only then will he reclaim that part of himself that is holding him. Only if he will give up trying to control his thinking, and let himself sink into his confusion, only then will things become clear. (64)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Giving Up, Confused, Struggle

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• Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Smile, Harsh

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• Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!

  Brigham Young

  Baby, Cry, Should

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• Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.

  Gen Urobuchi

  Kindness, People, Evil

  The Asahi Shimbun Interview (translated), August 30, 2011.

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• The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
  'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
  The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Wise, Lying, Knowledge

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1990). “Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment”, p.139, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

  Napoleon Hill

  Useless, Action, Appropriate

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.61, Penguin

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• There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work.

  Maria Kang

  Intention, Score, Happened

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• Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Evil, Done

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• The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

  Julie Powell

  Writing, Sisterhood, Skulls

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• 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

  Trying, Liberty, Triumph

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Writing, Sisterhood

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  Self, Weapons, Favour

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.

  Paul Washer

  Real, Feelings, Mind

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2011

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• When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Motivational, Summer, Country

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