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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs
The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.
Deborah Day
Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.
Criss Jami
Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different.
Magica Quartet
You don’t make art out of good intentions.
Gustave Flaubert
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde
'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
Plautus
Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
J. G. Gallimore
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Ben Stein
Hell is full of good intentions or desires.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With good intentions, hell proverbially is paved.http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/tt8.html
William James, Lectures 1892, pr
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley.
Robert Burns, "To A Mouse"
