Top 100 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. Defeat for good cause is greater than victory for the wrong cause.
Sipendr
#8. Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.
Swami Vivekananda
#9. The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.
Hank Azaria
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. Every step, every breath, every second I lived on this earth, I'm thankful for, no matter how fucked up or whacked or hard or good, 'cause all that shit led me to you.
Kristen Ashley
#18. Good, cause look what the cat just drug in, or threw up.
Candace Knoebel
#19. 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
#20. 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
#22. He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.
Bram Stoker
#23. There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
Vaclav Havel
#24. I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movember.
David Sax
#25. Hence, we should not be attached even to a good cause. Only then will our means remain pure and our actions too.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.
Lewis Mumford
#27. Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Are you being obedient, or just martyring yourself for another good cause?
Janine Mendenhall
#31. 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Laurence Sterne
#32. But instead of blaming women for not negotiating more, we need to recognize that women often have good cause to be reluctant to advocate for their own interests because doing so can easily backfire.
Sheryl Sandberg
#33. 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
#34. He's too tired to squirm clear of her, which is good 'cause pinching and kissing and hugging will calm an Italian mother-person better than anything.
D. James Smith
#36. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.
Eugene V. Debs
#37. 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
#38. You're not expecting, are you? (Jack)
No! (Syd)
Good, 'cause there's enough radon down there to give a fetus three heads. I don't want to be responsible for none of that. I only believe in corruption the ones what come out of the womb and grow to at least five feet in height. (Jack)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#39. I've been around for almost 10 years in the game but somehow I still look like I'm like on my second or third album or something. So it's good cause it doesn't blow up my age.
Fabolous
#40. 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
#41. Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.
Lloyd Alexander
#42. Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.
John Wayne
#43. 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
#44. I tell ya, my wife, we get along good cause we have our own arrangement. I mean, one night a week I go out with the boys and one night a week, she goes out with the boys.
Rodney Dangerfield
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. It takes more than clicking like for a good cause to change the world.
Michael Oh
#49. 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
#50. Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.
Richard Branson
#51. All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying
a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
Edward Abbey
#52. When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
Swami Vivekananda
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#60. 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
#61. If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.
Morgan Freeman
#62. I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece,
But my life been good since I started finding peace.
Nas
#63. If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.
Mark Skousen
#64. The United States succeeded by State action in prohibiting the slave-trade from 1798 to 1803, in furthering the cause of abolition, and in preventing the fitting out of slave-trade expeditions in United States ports. The country had good cause to congratulate itself.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#65. I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause
David Cook
#66. I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.
Charles Bukowski
#67. Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.
Victoria Osteen
#68. You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. War and courage have accomplished more great things than love of the neighbor. Not your pity but your courage has so far saved the unfortunate.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#69. 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.
#70. Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
Elia Kazan
#71. Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)
Kay Redfield Jamison
#72. 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
#73. If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
Eddie Vedder
#74. Angels and demons are not mythical, they're real and are here, inside all of us, trying to dominate but only with our support. It's us who decides who we are. Fighting for good cause makes us hero and letting wrong things happen, makes us villain
Nikhil Kushwaha
#75. 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
#76. Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.
James Surowiecki
#77. 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
#78. 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.
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.
Roger Scruton
#82. Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming,
Craig Newmark
#83. A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.
Rebecca West
#84. Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
Owen Arthur
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Great things are brought about and burdens are lightened through the efforts of many hands anxiously engaged in a good cause.
M. Russell Ballard
#88. 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
#89. I do not believe there is a way in which this deeply entrenched evil can be quickly healed. But until this goal is reached there is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.
Albert Einstein
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. If good people would make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause.
James Ussher
#94. Not every man is what he seems, and a prince especially has good cause to be wary ... but go too far down that road, and the mistrust can poison you, make you sour and fearful.
George R R Martin
#95. War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.
Howard Zinn
#96. The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
Frederic Bastiat
#97. War is the most evil kind of human approach; unless it is for good cause.
M.F. Moonzajer
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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