Good Causes Quotes

• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Secret

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2041, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is the good war that hallows every cause.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Causes, Good War

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

  Rebecca West

  Causes, Be Careful, Company

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• Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

  Paul Samuelson

  Causes, Environment, Very Good

  "An Elder Challenges Outsourcing's Orthodoxy" by Steve Lohr, www.nytimes.com. September 9, 2004.

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• It takes more than clicking like for a good cause to change the world.

  Michael Oh

  World, Causes, Changing The World

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• It is my hope that everyone's valiant efforts will have a ripple effect that will carry us forth into a fairer future. 'The arc of the moral universe is long,' said Martin Luther King Jr., 'but it bends toward justice.' And because I have been witness to so many people who lent their support to this good cause, I am lifted up by them -- lifted up so high that I can see the end of that arc.

  Prince Gomolvilas

  Kings, Justice, Long

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

  Nas

  Rap, Life Is Good, Thinking

  Song: Loco-Motive, 2012

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• Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Earth, Causes, Be True To Yourself

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

  Publilius Syrus

  Causes, Virtuous, Wrongdoing

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 207,

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• It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Men, Victory

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• Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.

  Morton Blackwell

  Democracy, Saws, Causes

  "The Laws Of The Public Policy Process" by Morton Blackwell (Law #31), www.leadershipinstitute.org. March 19, 2015.

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• Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Victory, Causes, Losing

  "Royal Truths".

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• I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

  David Cook

  Shy, Causes, Embarrassing

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• I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it’s like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Giving, Charity, Stuff

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• The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, People, Promise

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• Casals says music fills him with the wonder of life and the 'incredible marvel' of being a human. Ives says it expands his mind and challenges him to be a true individual. Bernstein says it is enriching and ennobling. To me, that sounds like a good cause for making music and the arts an integral part of every child's education. Studying music and the arts elevates children's education, expands students' horizons, and teaches them to appreciate the wonder of life.

  Richard Riley

  Art, Children, Appreciate

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• I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

  Hugh Jackman

  Soul, Causes, Sells

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• The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.

  Pat Boone

  America, Television, World

  "The 25 'Best' Quotes of CPAC 2011" by Roy Edroso, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society. Thousands are not ashamed to say that they regard the Bible as an old obsolete Jewish book, which has no special claim on our faith and obedience, and that it contains many inaccuracies and defects. In a day like this, the true Christian should be able to set his foot down firmly, and to render a reason of his confidence in God's Word. He should be able by sound arguments to show good cause why he thinks the Bible is from heaven, and not of men.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Book, Men

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• Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

  Mark Twain

  Selfish, Mean, Soul

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.108, Penguin

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• I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

  T Bone Burnett

  Culture, Attention, Pay

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

  George Pell

  Clever, Causes, Energy

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• A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mean, Fighting, Sacrifice

  Freeman J. Dyson (2016). “Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life”, p.129, World Scientific

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• 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

  Laurence Sterne

  Perseverance, Names, Causes

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 1, ch. 17

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