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“Honesty, good intentions and industry, you will have of course. Without these your career would soon end with the loss of your good name. But you must be ambitious to be a good deal more. Webb Hayes, his son, went on to found what had become the Union Carbide Corporation.”

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Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

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

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.”

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Author:David Limbaugh

“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.”

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Author:Ken Blanchard

“The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution but the people see government as part of the problem. Beastly bureaucracy is born out of good intentions married to poor solutions. Only when politicians realize what constituents already know will the true problem even be addressed much less solved.”

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Author:R. Lee Wrights

“If I did only what I wanted to do, I would not be obedient to the Creator. Sometimes He wants us to do certain things that we may not feel like doing. When it comes to what God asks of us, we need more than good intentions we need to follow through fully.”

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Author:John Wooden

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.”

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Author:Michael Josephson

“Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact.”

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Author:Claudio Sanchez

“People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing”

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Author:Justine Frischmann

“Treat yourself and others with kindness when you eat, exercise, play, work, love, and everything else. When you think, feel, and act kindly, you hasten your ability to connect to the power of intention.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.”

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Book:The Law of Success

Source: The Law of Success

“I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I try to support any and all animal causes or organizations out there if they are good and reputable. Sadly, there are a lot of people and organizations that raise money but don't do much or don't have good intentions. I've worked with organizations such as Marine Animal Rescue in Southern California.”

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Author:Alison Eastwood

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

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Author:Darren Hardy

“You're going to be waiting a long time before you start seeing money from it. Just really sit with yourself and think "Why do I want to be a singer?" like really think it out and if you realize that you really need to stick with then then be really focused and have good intentions on why you're doing it and it will work out.”

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Author:Jhene Aiko

“As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.”

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Author:Jayni Chase

“People that do good in the world or that want to do good, that have good intentions and want to help other people, and people that aren't concerned with themselves but more [with] others and helping in service of others - that inspires me.”

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Author:Daniella Alonso

“This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property... Some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcement than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil liberties of law-abiding Americans. This bill, while crafted with good intentions, is rife with constitutional infringements I could not support.”

“Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.”

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Book:Educability and Group Differences

Source: Educability and Group Differences

“The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.”

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Author:Aldo Leopold

“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”

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Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“You know why I love Chicago? Because this is just like Baltimore. Like, you can't go to Baltimore and be fake. They gonna point you right out, like, "Nah, you fake, go ahead outta here." They're going to chew you up and spit you out if you're fake. And if you come to Chicago, you can't be fake, in terms of the love and the concern. You gotta be real. Your good intentions - people want to feel that. We don't get enough of that.”

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Author:Felicia Pearson

“When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“The left has done a very admirably good job of demonizing the private sector, where what happens? Cheating, lying, dishonesty, destroying the planet, killing customers, starving people. And they've positioned themselves, of course, as the great compassionate last hope. They're the ones who truly care. We're not supposed to examine the results of their efforts, which are always dismal and always fail. We're supposed to examine their good intentions.”

“Veganism gives people an actual chance to DO SOMETHING instead of adding more cement (good intentions) to pave that road to Hell.”

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Author:Gary Yourofsky

“I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes.”

“You are the antithesis of a racist if you're white and you want to be black and you go out and do everything you can to identify as black, how in the world can they condemn that? That's not fraud. That's good intentions. And as we know, as we've learned, we are supposed to examine the good intentions and not the nature of the evidence.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.”

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Author:Morgan Spurlock

“The history of English is full of that, lots of things done with good intentions that 200 years down the road have resulted in a giant mess, where someone's pet peeves - like John Dryden and his hatred of terminal prepositions - could become real standards.”

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Author:Kory Stamper

“It's not enough to have good intentions. If you want to be a good person, you have to make good decisions all the time and live a life that's worth living and that you can be proud of, and that's what I wanted.”

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Author:Benjamin Booker

“Whether the Republicans intentions are good or evil - I pretty much assume that they're evil - but no matter what, man, when the people in charge make giant mistakes, everyone suffers. Even if they do have good intentions, when you make giant mistakes, it's a bad thing.”

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Author:Aaron McGruder

“There are some terrific resources on how to find individual purpose but relative resources on how to discover purpose and apply to an organization. My challenge was to show organizations how they could unlock the purpose of their organizations and put it to good use for employees to apply to their own jobs. The net effect is to help individuals, teams and organizations to optimize performance by understanding how to use purpose for good intention.”

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Author:John Baldoni

“Wal-Mart, with its legendary focus on customer value in terms of price, is innovating in sustainability. Now, we're beginning to see the mirror image, a convergence, as the not-for-profit sector is beginning to serve more effectively by applying private sector accountability and efficiencies to social needs. This reflects a rising recognition that to serve others best requires more than good intentions; it mandates a focus on real-world results. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are among the most conspicuous advocates and representatives of this transformation.”

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Author:James M Strock

“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.”

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Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”

“Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“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.”

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Author:Dee Dee Myers

“So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.”

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Author:Suze Orman

“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.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.”

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Book:Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

Source: Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

“I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.”

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Author:Thom Yorke

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

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Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

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