well-intentioned Quotes

Sometimes well-intentioned programs can lead to dependency and cause us to forget we have what it takes to attain the American dream.

God save us from people who mean well.

I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.

There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people.

A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

He is dead now, but he meant well.

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

Well, prepare yourself. I am all kinds of thoughtful this week. I brought you something else.

Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.