Cause Quotes

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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. - Aeschylus quote.
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

deceit

I feel I have a cause.  A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent.  It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. - Arnold Bennett quote.
I feel I have a cause.  A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent.  It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. - William Jennings Bryan quote.
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power. - Carrie Chapman Catt quote.
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.
I give it as my firmest conviction that service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life. - Carrie Chapman Catt quote.
I give it as my firmest conviction that service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause.  The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. - William James quote.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause.  The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
If you believe you have a just cause, an important message, or a key contribution to make, you will be just as innovative as a college freshman desperate to see his girlfriend six hundred miles away. You will get there any way you can.
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. - Phyllis McGinley quote.
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
When the Cause Has Charisma, Shrinking Violets Bloom in Public.

charisma

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotent. - Publilius Syrus quote.
When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotent.

gold eloquence

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. - Theodore Roosevelt quote.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause.
As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change. - Margaret Sanger quote.
As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.
Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good. - Fay Weldon quote.
Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.
Fay Weldon Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps. - Rebecca West quote.
A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.