Good Causes Quotes - Page 3

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

  Richard Branson

  Good Life, Long, Risk

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Oct 02, 2012

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• You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

  Russell Baker

  Smile, Opportunity, Feel Good

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• Everybody thinks the Government should be doing more about everything but just think how many of the bonuses which are quite rightly being dragged off certain people, just think to what good causes they could be put - wouldn't that be a lovely thought'?

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all this effort to change others, when if we really got down to it we could use this energy to change ourselves… We become tired radicals because we use our weakest weapon: the ballot box, where we are always outnumbered, and refuse to use our strongest weapon: spiritual power.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Spiritual, Tired, Effort

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.249, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• People will justify whatever for a good cause.

  Julie Taymor

  People, Causes, Justify

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• Without the support of my mom, Marlene, I would not be the person I am. She has been my main supporter throughout my career, and I owe everything to her. This is a small way that we, as players, can pay tribute to her and other hockey moms, and it is all for a good cause.

  Sean Avery

  Mom, Hockey, Player

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• No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

  John Mason Brown

  Home, Heaven, Causes

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• The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Proud, Causes, Week

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.130, Granta Books

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• I don’t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I’m a woman

  Bill Kaulitz

  Jobs, One Day, Body

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• People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivation, Eight, People

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• Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together, all of us who pray for peace together, are a small minority, but a powerful spiritual fellowship. Our power is beyond our numbers.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Powerful, Numbers

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.100, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• We’re looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin) Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny…you Sumerians really liked your hokey terms, huh? (Kat) They didn’t exactly ask my opinion before they named them. (Sin) Good, ‘cause my estimation of your intellect would be seriously scarred if they had. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moon, Destiny, Would Be

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• I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Children, Causes, Balloons

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.

  John Steinbeck

  Wrath, Soul, Pieces

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

  Kate Tempest

  Writing, Causes, Findings

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• What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

  Robert Stone

  Moving, Writing, Space

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• He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She’d totally been born in the wrong century. She should have lived back when she could have gotten herself fed to some lions for a good cause.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Hurt, Should Have

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Way, Causes

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.74, Vintage

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• The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Liberty, Causes, Worst

  "Economic sophisms". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1845.

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• You’re going to share a Moon Pie? Now? You know you can’t get any more of those until you go back to the Sates, right? (Geary) It’s for a good cause. We need more addicts. Besides, there’s always Grandpa to bail me out with an emergency shipment if I get too desperate. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moon, Pie, Grandpa

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• My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Political Opinions, Differences, Office

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• It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

  Stephen King

  Simple, Greed, Causes

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2746, Simon and Schuster

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• Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

  Elia Kazan

  Hey, Causes, Hey You

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• You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Causes, Good War

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.103, Penguin

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• There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

  Steven Seagal

  Warrior, Thinking, Guy

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