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• Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

  Mason Cooley

  Beauty, Guarantees, World

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• They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Moving, Mountain

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.76, Routledge

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• Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Thinking, Medicine

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• Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

  Jean Chretien

  Excuse, Intention, Magnitude

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• If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

  Rick Warren

  People, Addiction, Temptation

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• I'd like to say that I am romantic person, but I don't think I am. When I won my first tournament I went into the crowd and kissed my girlfriend. I was 18 and didn't have my coach with me, I was there on my own, and I just needed to celebrate with someone I knew. I always start out with good intentions. I'll say something nice, then I'll just put my foot in it and ruin the moment.

  Andy Murray

  Girlfriend, Nice, Thinking

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• Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

  Tucker Max

  Heaven, Half, Action

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• Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites

  Fred Thompson

  Toxic Waste, America, Cleaning

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• In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in itself but proceeds from a good intention. Whence when the same thing is done by the same man at different times, by the diversity of his intention, however, his action is now said to be good, now bad.

  Peter Abelard

  Men, Diversity, Doe

  "Peter Abelard's Ethics". Book by Peter Abelard, 1971.

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• It’s the age-old concept of like attracts like, or the law of attraction. You get back what you put out, so you might as well think positively, focus on visualizing what you want instead of getting distracted by what you don’t want, and send the universe your good intentions so that it can send them right back.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Focus

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.89, Penguin

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• Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions

  Tom Rath

  Children, Unique, Parent

  Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton (2007). “How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mean, Purpose, Investing

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• And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Ambition, Imagination, Ruins

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• But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Past, Opportunity, Evil

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.238, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

  Michelle Sagara

  Heartless, Matter, Belief

  Michelle Sagara (2012). “Cast in Peril”, p.118, LUNA

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• All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

  Joshua Ferris

  Heart, Poor Decisions, Broken

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• In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

  Douglas Crockford

  Beautiful, Javascript, Language

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.2, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

  Cindy Gallop

  World, Action, Pool

  "Yes, we plan: how altruism and advertising could change the world" by Eliot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hell, Intention

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• Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us. We might say that hurt happens; it’s a given of life. Harm is inflicted; it’s a choice some people make.

  David Richo

  Hurt, Believe, Mean

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Wind, Overcoming

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• One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Evil, Use, Action

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• Do not despise any man, however poor he may be; but behave with full respect and kindness to every well-intentioned man, especially to the poor, as to our members worthy of compassion - or, rather, to members of Christ - otherwise you will cruelly wound your soul.

  John of Kronstadt

  Kindness, Men, Compassion

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• 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

  Love You, Giving, Satan

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