Good intentions and high ideals are not enough. They are great initials dispositions towards doing great and wonderful things, but they are not enough. They are necessary but not sufficient.
1. Be principled.
2. Be skillful in executing a plan.
3. No bad means will gain your good end.
4. Be practical and open, do not force the world or others to fit your plan.
5. Be reasonable.
6. One cannot force others to do good; the bad means corrupt this noble end.
7. What are the unintended consequences? How can they be avoided, or remedied?
8. Work hard to make good intentions come reality. Work hard to bring high ideals down to earth.
9. Life is messy. Efforts fall short. People backslide. Be firm but forgiving, patient and sensible. If you stay at it like George Washington did, you will triumph in the end.
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