{"quotes":[{"text":"It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.","author":"Jocelyn Murray","tags":["actions","good-intentions","motives","noble-sentiments"],"id":1044,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Murray"},{"text":"Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["good-intentions","good-vs-evil","goodness","haters","lessons-for-man","lessons-learned","life-lessons","life","living-well","love"],"id":2588,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["good-acts","good-intentions","goodness"],"id":4094,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"The importance of cultivating assumption of the best intentions in others cannot be over-estimated. Fostering this principal of, 'goodness of intent,” and committing to seeing others and the world through this lens makes for a successful, happy field of vision. This enables us to put our focus and energy to positive, productive outcomes. It lends to a spirit of cooperation and encouragement which is highly effective and satisfying for most people most of the time. That being said, these 'rose colored glasses,' as vibrant and pleasing as they are, must not become an excuse to look the other way when something needs a different focus, or fixed. We must not let them become blinders which are obviously ineffective, often negative, and occasionally dangerous.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["best-in-others","cooperation","dangerous","effectiveness","focus","good-intentions","negative","positivity","rose-colored-glasses"],"id":20760,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"Never grow weary of doing good.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","daily-life","deeds","educational","faith","good-intentions","good-life","goodness","helping-others","humanity-advice","inspirational","life","needy","philosophy-of-life","wise-words"],"id":30164,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"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.","author":"Kirsten Beyer","tags":["good-intentions","peace","principles"],"id":39646,"author_id":"Kirsten+Beyer"},{"text":"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.","author":"Shanthi Sekaran","tags":["fear","good-intentions","intentions"],"id":62228,"author_id":"Shanthi+Sekaran"},{"text":"Be good to everyone you meet.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian-life","christian","co-existence","good-intentions","good-life","goodness","goodness","inspirational-attitude","inspirational","kindness","kindness","wisdom","wise-words"],"id":71754,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"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.","author":"Brené Brown","tags":["anger","expectations","frustration","good-intentions","grief","resentment"],"id":77871,"author_id":"Bren%C3%A9+Brown"},{"text":"Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["bad-decisions","bad-past","blessings","burning-bridges","cause-and-effect","chance","crossroads","fate","fluke","future","ghost","good-intentions","happenstance","intend","luck","meet","needs","no-return","occasion","odds","outcome","pass","predictions","regrets","relations","risk","turning-point","zero-hour"],"id":94419,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":72,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}