Best 115 quotes in «good intentions quotes» category

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

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.

People with good intentions never give up!

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

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

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

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

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

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

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill.

A joyful soul, a grateful spirit full of love and light!

And yet, far off, I can hear something whispering that this compulsion to do, to intrude ourselves, to improve on what is--even when wholly well intentioned, particularly when wholly well intentioned--is the source of all our troubles.

All men are guilty of the wrong they have done.

A millenarian fire burned in Oppenheimer’s spirit, fueled by his pride as a world-historical individual, by his fear that the natural force he loosed upon the world would escape all human control, and by a pure-hearted longing to ensure that his discovery of the devastation latent in the elemental substance of the world would serve concord rather than the ultimate discord, perpetual peace rather than permanent self-destruction.

And good intentions? These scared him the most: people with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for.

Be good to everyone you meet.

Be a Force of Good in the World. You can't change everything.

Be humble, be gentle, be kind.

Do all the good you can while you still have the opportunity.

Do not run away from your challenges. You must endure and overcome each challenge.

Good intentions are not good at all.

- Din hjärna har skrumpnat av energi- och fettbrist, sa John. Jag sa från början åt dig att vishet är att veta när man ska sluta gå i tangentens riktning. Vid en viss punkt blir det godas riktning ond. Det gäller att veta var, och stanna. Men det kräver självständighet och att man inte är rädd för att kallas avfälling, ideologiskt svag och medlöpare.

Folks write down the name of someone who fills them with frustration, disappointment, and/or resentment, and then I propose that their person is doing the best he or she can. The responses have been wide-ranging...One woman said, "If this was true and my mother was doing the best she can, I would be grief-stricken. I'd rather be angry than sad, so it's easier to believe she's letting me down on purpose than grieve the fact that my mother is never going to be who I need her to be.

Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips.

Had I done it sooner, perhaps he might have lived. He was a man of courage and good heart, a proud man. Now he is dead. I saved the signal to use in a worthy cause, and when I found one it was wasted.” “Wasted?” answered Fflewddur. “I think not. Since you did your best and didn’t begrudge using it, I shouldn’t call it wasted at all.

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

However, it’s usually random acts of good intent, like this one, which get you into the worst trouble in the long run. They say that if you want to change the world then you should be that change you want to see. Well that’s what Gandhi said and see what they did to him. Ya, random acts of good intent are the ones that just might get you killed. The further you stick your neck out for others the more likely it’s going to chopped, or at least get a large heavy albatross around it.

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions.” “The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain,” Chakotay said with equal certainty. “So is the road to peace,” Cambridge observed.

If your intentions are good, nothing bad can happen.

Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life.

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-centered, 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.

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-centered, 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. College transported me to a new town, where I tried, one more time, to reinvent myself. Becoming someone new, I could correct the errors of my past. At first I was optimistic: I could pull it off. But in the end, no matter where I went, I could never change. Over and over I made the same mistake, hurt other people, and hurt myself in the bargain. Just after I turned twenty, this thought hit me: Maybe I've lost the chance to ever be a decent human being. The mistakes I'd committed—maybe they were part of my very makeup, an inescapable part of my being. I'd hit rock bottom, and I knew it.

It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world

.......Is there any reward for good, other than good.

It is not enough to believe. Believe must lead to change of attitude and conduct.

It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.

It's exhausting, tiptoeing around someone who barges into your life with good intentions.

Lady Kingsley, when you read this, do attempt to keep an open mind.” “I will if you will,” she retorted hotly. To her surprise, he chuckled. “I daresay neither of us will. It’s a pity, too, because if we could ever see our way clear to agreeing on a matter, we might accomplish a great deal of good in this world.” It infuriated her that he could pretend to care even one whit for these boys. “Now you’ve confused me. I’d assumed that your reason for serving on so many charitable boards was to further your political aims. Yet all the time you were merely hoping to accomplish some ‘good in this world.’ How very astonishing.” Just that quickly, his amusement vanished. “While I don’t pretend to be as morally superior as you and your late husband, my intentions are good, no matter what you make of them. It may shock you to learn that those of us with character flaws sometimes do as much good as those of you without.

It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth.

Live in peace with all mankind.