Top 100 A Good Cause Quotes
#1. Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.
Morton Blackwell
#2. It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.
Frankie J. Grande
#3. Always the answer - yes! Let me die so -
Under some rosy-golden sunset, saying
A good thing, for a good cause! By the sword,
The point of honor - by the hand of one
Worthy to be my foeman, let me fall -
Steel in my heart, and laughter on my lips!
Edmond Rostand
#4. 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
#5. A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.
Thomas Jefferson
#6. You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.
Swami Vivekananda
#8. I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#9. 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
#10. Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#11. Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.
Joe Jonas
#12. 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
#13. I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
Lara Spencer
#15. You're back," she said.
"I'm leaving again."
"To steal more grain from a captured country estate?"
His smile was perfectly mischievous. "Rebels must eat."
"And I suppose you use my horse in these battles and thefts of yours."
"He's happy to support a good cause.
Marie Rutkoski
#17. There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
Vaclav Havel
#18. I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movember.
David Sax
#19. Hence, we should not be attached even to a good cause. Only then will our means remain pure and our actions too.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
#21. Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.
Ellen Lupton
#22. 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Laurence Sterne
#23. A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.
Kobe Bryant
#24. Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last; it is less shame for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence.
Francis Quarles
#25. Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.
John Wayne
#26. 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
#27. I have got only one life to live and one death to die; there better be a good cause to live and a good cause to die.
Surendra Nath
#28. I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
Woodrow Wilson
#29. You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. It takes more than clicking like for a good cause to change the world.
Michael Oh
#31. 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
#32. Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.
Richard Branson
#33. When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
Swami Vivekananda
#34. 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
#35. After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.
Nell Newman
#36. Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.
Jeremy Spencer
#37. We invent casuistical arguments for ourselves, we take a lesson from the Jesuits, and, for a time, contrive to allay our own doubts and convince ourselves that what we are doing is necessary, absolutely necessary, in a good cause. That is the way we are made; it is all as clear as daylight.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#40. It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.
Guy Lafleur
#41. I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause
David Cook
#42. If I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue, righteousness and truth, in maintaining the laws and Constitution of the United States, if need be, for the general good of mankind.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#43. When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape.
Fuminori Nakamura
#44. If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
Eddie Vedder
#45. 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
#46. Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.
James Surowiecki
#47. What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way?
Roland Barthes
#48. Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness; 28. For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#49. 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
#50. I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.
Terrell Owens
#51. Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.
Roger Scruton
#52. Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming,
Craig Newmark
#53. A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.
Rebecca West
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Great things are brought about and burdens are lightened through the efforts of many hands anxiously engaged in a good cause.
M. Russell Ballard
#57. This Guph was really a clever rascal, and it seems a pity he was so bad, for in a good cause he might have accomplished much.
L. Frank Baum
#58. 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
#59. If you give up, you champion the cause of the devil.If you stand the test, you align yourself with the character and will of God.Children of God never give up on a good cause!
Phanuel Muverengwi
#60. If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.
Joseph McCabe
#61. The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
Frederic Bastiat
#62. 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
#63. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
Christopher Hitchens
#64. You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.
Anthony Horowitz
#65. We are engaged in a good cause, fight under a good Captain, the victory is sure beforehand, and the prize is a crown - a crown of eternal life.
John Newton
#66. People will justify whatever for a good cause.
Julie Taymor
#67. Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.
Adolf Hitler
#68. When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.
Bobby Allison
#69. I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one ... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
Joe Strummer
#70. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.
Camron Wright
#71. You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done ... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
Will Rogers
#72. Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.
Phillip Phillips
#73. America's religion. This is it gang, this is all you need to know. There is a God, He's going to judge us, we should be good to each other, cause daddy's gonna be pissed in the end if we're not. That's it. That's called a big principle.
Glenn Beck
#74. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin
Cause the only way to find your life is to lay your own life down
And I believe it's an easy price for the life that we have found
Andrew Peterson
#75. Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.
Clayton Christensen
#76. The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
Billy Zane
#77. Don't take no shit off fools. An' you judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the right thing. You gotta be one of the good guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad.
Garth Ennis
#78. They only the victory win,
Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within;
Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high;
Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight
if need be, to die.
William Wetmore Story
#79. One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.
Peter Kreeft
#80. 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
#81. Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.
Aristotle.
#82. Lawmakers who interfere with commerce and the normal creation of jobs in an economy run the risk of doing harm rather than good. Unintended consequences from regulating or legislating to achieve a goal can occur and cause havoc in the markets or an economy.
Mark Skousen
#83. I tell them how it is, give them a good time and then the cab fare home. Thank you, good night. Don't call me, 'cause I sure as shit won't be calling you.
Emma Chase
#84. Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.
William Cowper
#85. Cousins are people that are ready made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.
Courteney Cox
#86. Arabella, like a sweet, compliant woman and good wife, put all thoughts of her new curtains aside for the moment and assured both gentlemen that in such a cause it was no trouble to her to wait.
Susanna Clarke
#87. I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Robert Redford
#88. I have a 14 year old daughter now. You know, it was that time in these kids lives when these girls are becoming women and the hormones are raging. They didn't know if The Beatles were any good, they just went for it 'cause The Beatles were attractive.
Jack Jones
#89. Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man
Sam Smith
#90. My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Edward Teller
#91. Answered his telephone himself if he happened to be at hand when it signalled because each call offered good odds that he would be justified in being gratifyingly rude to some stranger for daring to invade his privacy without cause - "cause" by Harshaw's definition, not by the stranger's.
Robert A. Heinlein
#92. We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.
Eric Hoffer
#93. A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.
Bertrand Russell
#94. It should be illegal to look this good in public. He should be confined to a museum and never let out in real life. His looks are distracting. They could cause an accident one day.
T. Torrest
#95. The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.
John Fowles
#96. Once in a while I'll order an omelet, 'cause I'm not very good at making omelets.
Cheryl Hines
#97. If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
Charles Caleb Colton
#98. Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).
Julian Casablancas
#99. I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
Ornette Coleman
#100. Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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