Top 100 Quotes About Good Causes
#1. Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.
Morton Blackwell
#2. 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
#3. I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.
Chuck Feeney
#4. You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. Because if taken in excess, it causes giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous overconfidence,' said Slughorn. 'Too much of a good thing, you know . . . highly toxic in large quantities. But taken sparingly, and very occasionally . . .
J.K. Rowling
#6. Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.
Wilferd Peterson
#7. I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out.
LeSean McCoy
#8. Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.
Fay Weldon
#9. There's such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But such admonishments did no good. He was still as blocked as a pipe full of concrete.
Dean Koontz
#10. I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
Damian Kulash
#11. Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.
Will Durant
#12. Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.
Deepak Chopra
#13. Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead.
Michael Reisman
#14. I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
Kate Del Castillo
#15. Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.
Euripides
#16. The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.
Charles Darwin
#17. Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life
Drake
#18. The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money
Seth Godin
#19. Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
Mark Skousen
#20. Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
George Michael
#21. 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
#22. A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.
Bertrand Russell
#23. It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
Ken Robinson
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.
Euripides
#27. The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. Injustice, they say, can only emanate from three causes: want of wisdom to perceive what is just, want of benevolence to desire, want of power to fulfill it; and that each of these three wants is incompatible in the All-Wise, the All-Good, the All-Powerful.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
#29. Everything starts with faith. Faith causes us to see good things in the future, and because of this we develop a vision of success and prosperity in life.
Casey Treat
#30. 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
#31. I have been stubborn and getting into trouble since I was 2, but I learned how to redirect that into good causes.
Julia Butterfly Hill
#32. I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.
Dave Barry
#33. That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.
Andy Kaufman
#35. Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#36. When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
Bill Nighy
#37. YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS
Socrates
#38. As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about.
Scarlett Johansson
#39. Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
Baruch Spinoza
#40. True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.
Warren Murphy
#41. Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.
Russell Baker
#42. Talking doesn't mean you have said something. What really matters is the message your words carry, not the sound, but the reveberation it causes on the soul.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#43. When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.
Ted Nugent
#44. The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
Brandy Norwood
#45. They charge us with anti-Semitism ... The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.
Pat Buchanan
#46. The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things
Tertullian
#47. Complacency is a blight that saps energy, dulls attitudes, and causes a a drain in the brain. The first symptom is satisfaction with things as they are. The second is rejection of things it as they might be. "Good enough" becomes days today's watchword and tomorrow standard.
Alex And Brett Harris
#48. of oxygen, whether we think of it as 'good' or 'bad', is the formation of free radicals. As conventionally stated, the idea that breathing oxygen causes ageing is disarmingly simple. We produce free
Nick Lane
#49. Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts.
Criss Jami
#50. To hell with God damned "L'Amour." It always causes far more trouble than it is worth. Don't run after it. Don't court it. Keep it waiting off stage until you're good and ready for it and even then treat it with the suspicious disdain that it deserves ...
Noel Coward
#51. NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening
Charles Petzold
#52. It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
John Lancaster Spalding
#53. The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#54. To be a good diagnostician, a physician needs to acquire a large set of labels for diseases, each of which binds an idea of the illness and its symptoms, possible antecedents and causes, possible developments and consequences, and possible interventions to cure or mitigate the illness.
Daniel Kahneman
#55. Just be you ... 'cause that's good enough for me!
Cory Monteith
#56. There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
Jesse Ventura
#57. In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
Louis Pasteur
#58. One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.
Beverly LaHaye
#59. 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
#60. If what has happened makes us happy, we call it "good." If it causes pain, we call it "bad.
Bruce Van Horn
#61. Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
#62. Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend,
With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
Alexander Pope
#63. Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.
Annie Dillard
#64. No I don't have a sex tape and I'm kind of upset that I don't. You know why? 'Cause I'm really good,
Jenny McCarthy
#65. The three social influences that we have emphasized - information, peer pressure, and priming - can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As we will see, both business and governments can use the power of social influence to promote many good (and bad) causes.
Richard H. Thaler
#66. If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
Charles Stanley
#67. Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.
Borden Chase
#68. For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,
he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?
Jared Brock
#70. One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
Martin Seligman
#72. Anger and bitterness are two noticeable signs of being focused on self and not trusting God's sovereignty in your life. When you believe that God causes all things to work together for good to those who belong to Him and love Him, you can respond to trials with joy instead of anger or bitterness.
John C. Broger
#73. I think I prioritize other people's opinions of me very highly, which is not necessarily a good thing - it's a thing that causes a lot of anxiety.
Jesse Eisenberg
#74. I have to be careful what I ask for in life, cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, Ive got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party.
Robbie Williams
#75. I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things 'cause they're fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
Abbie Hoffman
#76. There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.
Densey Clyne
#77. There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.
Charlie Trotter
#79. Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.
Stephen L. Richards
#81. 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
#82. The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result.
Swami Vivekananda
#83. The two chief causes of error in our relations with another person are, having ourselves a good heart, or else being in love with the other person.
Marcel Proust
#84. I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.
Dolly Parton
#85. And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
Thomas More
#86. I wonder why looking at that causes sleepiness ... Maybe it's the illusion-type magic that Spriggans are good at or something.
Reki Kawahara
#87. In my 40s - when I was giving to the Red Cross, United Jewish Appeal and other charities - I said to myself, this is all well and good, but these are really amorphous things, and maybe there are some causes out there that I really give a damn about.
Charles Bronfman
#88. God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
Walter Raleigh
#89. Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.
John Wayne
#90. There are no honorable causes. There is no good or evil. Evil is only what we call those who oppose us.
Michael Sullivan
#91. Online affiliation with good causes is good netiquette. Stand for something!
David Chiles
#92. Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
Francis Bacon
#93. Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.
Peter Drucker
#94. 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
#95. It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a soul mate!
Judith Orloff
#96. It takes more than clicking like for a good cause to change the world.
Michael Oh
#97. When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
Timothy Keller
#98. The leftist philosophy of violence is simple: It's good when it's being used for leftist causes. It's bad when it's being used for any other purpose.
Ben Shapiro
#99. History is full of examples of men with deep-seated grievances who embraced good causes, in part at least, to settle old scores.
Carl Bridenbaugh
#100. Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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