G Quotes
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“Good intentions are not the whole story. You must also pay attention.”
“Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.”
“Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.”
“Good intentions are the seeds of greatness, but they only grow when watered with action and consistency”
“Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“Good intentions are useless without good actions.”
“Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.”
“Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.”
Source: Duplicate Keys
“Good intentions are worthless unless they lead to good actions.”
“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.”
Source: Killosophy
“Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.”
Source: Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte
“Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.”
“Good intentions do not always suffice.”
“Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.”
“Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.”
“Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.”
“Good intentions, sure, but when have they ever been enough.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.”
Source: The speeches of Daniel Webster and his master-pieces
“Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.”
“Good introduced human beings to be students of himself and his works, and not merely students but also interpreters of these things. It is wrong, therefore, for us to begin and end where the nonrational animals do. We should rather begin where they do but end where nature has ended in our case. Nature ended at studying and paying attention to things and a way of life in harmony with itself. See to it then, that you do not die without having studied these things.”
Source: How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
“Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.”
“Good is a noun rather than an adjective.”
Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Good is done by degrees.”
“Good is god and discrimination is demon.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“Good is god, but better carries it.”
“Good is good.”
“Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race.”
“Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.”
“Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.”
“Good is money, everything else is credit.”
“Good is my intention. Bad, maybe your perception.”
Source: Emaan-The power of change within
“Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.”
“Good is no good, but if it be spend,
God giveth good for none other end.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)
“Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.”
“Good is not a thing you are. It is a thing you do.”
“Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.”
“Good is not enough. You've got to be great.”
“Good is not good enough when better is expected”
“Good is not good when better is expected.”
“Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.”
Source: Love Poems
“Good is not good, where better is expected”
Source: The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller
“Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.”
Source: The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel
“Good is often the enemy of best.”
“Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.”
“Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.”
“Good is that darkening of our lives,
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten.”
Source: Hymns
“Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities. These things have nothing to do with a person's relationship with the Supreme.”
“Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938