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Famous Cause Quotes

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency. — Paul Samuelson

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all. - Liam Neeson

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all. — Liam Neeson

If I’m going to use social media, might as well support a cause I care about and spread awareness. — Sadie Sink

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for. — Albert Camus

Charity sees the need, not the cause. — Proverbs

There are a lot of ways to do good in the world. — Sam Bankman-Fried

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. — Michelle Obama

It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters. — Carole King

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. — Clara Barton

Do anything that might make the world a better place for someone — Walter Payton

Develop a cause beyond yourself. Try to leave the world a better place because you were here. — Joe Ehrmann

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end. — Grover Cleveland

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa — Mother Teresa

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. — Homer

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it. — Tim Cook

Short Cause Quotes

  • The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. — Eckhart Tolle
  • Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. — T. S. Eliot
  • Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation. — Averroes
  • Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy. — George Michael
  • Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine! — Benito Mussolini
  • Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. — Maya Angelou
  • Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. — John Barrymore
  • I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret. — Nas
  • Pimpin' ain't dead 'cause I be the life line. — Lil Wayne
  • Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. — Johnny Cash

Cause Image Quotes

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure - Hippocrates quote

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure — Hippocrates

Cause quote The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Damn right I like the life I live,
Cause I went from negative to positive. - The Notorious B.I.G. quote

Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive. — The Notorious B.I.G.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - Marcus Aurelius quote

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long. - Tom Petty quote

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long. — Tom Petty

Cause quote Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
Those who are quiet will always cause riots. - Dr. Dre quote

Those who are quiet will always cause riots. — Dr. Dre

Am I really just a narcissist,
Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque? - Rick Ross quote

Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque? — Rick Ross

Truth never damages a cause that is just. - Mahatma Gandhi quote

Truth never damages a cause that is just. — Mahatma Gandhi

Cause quote Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress.
Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress.
Beauty is not caused. It is. - Emily Dickinson quote

Beauty is not caused. It is. — Emily Dickinson

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty - Jordan Belfort quote

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty — Jordan Belfort

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. - Woody Allen quote

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. — Woody Allen

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God. - Oswald Chambers quote

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God. — Oswald Chambers

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. - John Wooden quote

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. — John Wooden

For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. - Joseph M. Juran quote

For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. — Joseph M. Juran

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it. - Hazrat Inayat Khan quote

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it. - Chris Brown quote

Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it. — Chris Brown

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death. - Nas quote

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death. — Nas

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue - Samuel Adams quote

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue — Samuel Adams

Quality has to be caused, not controlled. - Phil Crosby quote

Quality has to be caused, not controlled. — Phil Crosby

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money. - John Spence quote

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money. — John Spence

Cause quote Stress is caused by giving a fuck.
Stress is caused by giving a fuck.

Good Cause Quotes

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust. — Thomas Aquinas

After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. — Ignatius of Loyola

Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse. — Joseph Prince

Cause quote HATE. Caused a lot of problems but not solved one!
HATE. Caused a lot of problems but not solved one!

We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts of Christ, that they may become partakers with us of the joyful hope of blessings from God, the Lord of all. — Justin Martyr

People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane. — Kid Cudi

O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure. — Abdul-Qadir Gilani

Cause quote Sex relieves tension - love causes it.
Sex relieves tension - love causes it.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. — Beatrix Potter

I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece, But my life been good since I started finding peace. — Nas

Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention. — Ernest Holmes

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam. — Medgar Evers

Good Cause And Effect Quotes

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. — Jean De La Bruyere

The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt. — Leonardo da Vinci

[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them. — James Madison

Cause quote Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress
Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress

It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor. — Ted Nugent

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes. — Terry Pratchett

Cause quote Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but is has not solved one yet.
Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but is has not solved one yet.

The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result. — Swami Vivekananda

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition. — Leonardo da Vinci

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. — Leo Tolstoy

Do Good For No Reason Quotes

Do good things for others, for no reason at all. It makes life more fun. Transactional relationships are meh. — Lex Fridman

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. — Bertrand Russell

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do. — John Cusack

Cause quote Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.
Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic. — Richard Dawkins

There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion. — Jane Austen

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. — Alain de Botton

Cause quote Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.
Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement. — Moby

I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause But rather reason thus with reason fetter, Love sought is good, but given unsought better. — William Shakespeare

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. — Arthur Conan Doyle

If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so. — Greg Koukl

For A Cause Quotes

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless. — Immortal Technique

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. — Thomas Jefferson

Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. — Muammar al-Gaddafi

Cause quote Keep listening to music, cause it gets you through everything, I promise.
Keep listening to music, cause it gets you through everything, I promise.

We could fight the fuss till we get like friends, Or somebody bite the dust and we split like ends. Even in our wildest moments, girl, I'm on it cause you're worth it. Practice makes perfect, so we fightin' for a purpose. — ASAP Rocky

The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom. — James Connolly

Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers. — Watchman Nee

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl

There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility. — Marcus Garvey

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse. — Ulysses S. Grant

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. — Henry Melvill

Worthy Causes Quotes

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong. — Walter E. Williams

Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours. — John D. Rockefeller

If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life. — Jack H. Goaslind

My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help. — Ellen G. White

O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God. Usually these worldly things has caused mortals to forget the the Name of the Lord. Not even one of them will go along with you in the end. — Guru Angad

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. — Georges Rouault

Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. — Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes. — Norman Vincent Peale

I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot be taken away from you. You can have money, you can have fame, but in the end, it can be taken from you. But education will always be there to help you. — Shamcey Supsup

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More Cause Quotes

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm. - Mary Euphrasia Pelletier quote

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. - Howard Baker quote

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. — Howard Baker

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. - Plato quote

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. — Plato

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis. - Kenneth Lay quote

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis. — Kenneth Lay

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. - Thomas Carlyle quote

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. — Thomas Carlyle

Poverty is not the root cause of crime. - Rush Limbaugh quote

Poverty is not the root cause of crime. — Rush Limbaugh

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same. - Lil Wayne quote

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same. — Lil Wayne

In some causes silence is dangerous. - Ambrose quote

In some causes silence is dangerous. — Ambrose

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. - Frederick Douglass quote

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. — Frederick Douglass

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. - Osamu Dazai quote

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. — Osamu Dazai

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration. - Andrew Carnegie quote

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration. — Andrew Carnegie

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. - John Tillotson quote

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. — John Tillotson

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness. - Jay London quote

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness. — Jay London

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure. - Florenz Ziegfeld quote

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure. — Florenz Ziegfeld

He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. — Bob Marley

Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever. — Nas

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance — Al-Ghazali

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