Quotes About Championing A Cause

#1. TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important ideas of our time. Our focus is on women as change agents, innovators and idea champions, and I think people will be both inspired and surprised by the program. We're exploring some fascinating territory!

Pat Mitchell

#2. A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

Peter Drucker

#3. A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.

David Sze

#4. A poem is a spider web
Spun with words of wonder,
Woven lace held in place
By whispers made of thunder.

Charles Ghigna

#5. Kids dealing with these really adult-problems. I'm making big, generalized statements but our culture doesn't acknowledge these things. Sex does lead to pregnancy! Kids don't always have an outlet or someone they can talk to about it.

Sarah Steele

#6. Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.

Barbara Olson

#7. Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

Cyrano De Bergerac

#8. The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

Felix Frankfurter

#9. Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

Corey Taylor

#10. You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

Michael Eisner

#11. What it would be like to be separated from all these things he did not know, but the more he dwelled on it the more he understood that it was not so much fear of being separated that he felt as sadness at the idea of parting.

Anuk Arudpragasam

#12. A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back - bruised and aching - as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art.

H.G. Mewis

#13. I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Nadine Gordimer

#14. The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

Peter Marshall

#15. As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.

Baron De Montesquieu

#16. Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.

Lesley Manville

#17. The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Darell Hammond

#18. God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

Joel Osteen