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• Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

  James C. Collins

  Decision, Good To Great, Made

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• Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Lying, Weak, Intention

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• ... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Problem, Solve, Sufficient

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• 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

  Educational, Views, People

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Ideas, Self

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• 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

  Devil, Details, Hell

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• Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

  Edward Albee

  Intention

  Edward Albee (2003). “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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  A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

  Paul Newman

  Men, Belief, Action

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Stories, Want

  Interview with Faith L. Justice, www.salon.com. January 23, 2001.

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• Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Jesus, Effort

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.262, Thomas Nelson

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• 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

  Attitude, Matter, Happens

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2015

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• If our mind is in conflict, not balanced with our body and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. Only if we have unity within ourselves, we can create unity in the world around us. You can't give something you don't have, even if you have all good intentions

  Radhanath Swami

  Giving, Soul, Mind

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• Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Fall, Men

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• O, how easy it would appear to be to live in simplicity and love, and yet how difficult it is for our corrupt hearts to live in love!

  John of Kronstadt

  Heart, Simplicity, And Love

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• A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Feet, Clothes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press

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• Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other factions suffer from the same problem. I have not thought about it before.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Long, Goal

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• We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long as he dwells in our hearts and blinds the eyes of the heart with his somber disorders, we can neither discriminate what is for our good, nor achieve spiritual knowledge, nor fulfill our good intentions, nor participate in true life; and our intellect will remain impervious to the contemplation of the true, divine light; for it is written, 'Man's anger does not bring about the righteousness of God' (Jms. 1:20).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Eye

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• 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

  Character, Noble, Adherence

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• Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Life, Motivational, Deeds

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• Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Judging, People, Matter

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• 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

  Trying, Twenties, World

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.4, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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

  Together, World, Tangible

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• An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it deserves rather than what it earns. It is paid for 'good intentions' and 'programs'. It is paid for not alienating important constituents rather than satisfying any one group. It is misdirected by the way it is being paid into defining performance and results as what will produce the budget rather than as what will produce contribution.

  Peter Drucker

  Important, Way, Defining

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• I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Goal, Way, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Government, People, Liberty

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