Causes Quotes

• Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

  Johnny Cash

  Nice, Fighting, Cash Flow

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• We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

  Ronald Reagan

  Important, Categories, Human Life

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• Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

  John Locke

  Funny, Money, Shoes

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• Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two Sides, Facts, Imperfect

  Essays Circles

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• When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Believe, Adversity

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2015

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• Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

  John Tillotson

  Ignorance, Two, Ruins

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• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  C. S. Lewis

  Literature, Reason, Self Justification

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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Thank You, Memorial Day

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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  Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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• Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

  Plato

  Change, Plato, Government

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

  Michael Connelly

  Mean, Roots, Evil

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• The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

  David Hume

  Words Of Wisdom, Obvious, True Ones

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1189, Delphi Classics

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• To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

  Gwen John

  Suffering, Passionate, Violence

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• If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

  Epictetus

  Happy Birthday, Loss, Anxiety

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• Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, People, Champion

  "We need to make America once again a beacon in the world". John Kerry's speech to the democratic national convention, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Expression, Accomplishment

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• Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Creativity, Creative

  Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Gide and George"

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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Passion

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

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• Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life

  Napoleon Hill

  Loyalty, Walks, Majors

  Napoleon Hill (2016). “How to overcome Failure and achieve SUCCESS”, p.10, Elkrimbouziane

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• Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

  Thucydides

  Spring, War, Anger

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• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Civilization, Politics

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Relationship, Karma, Kindness

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

  Liza Minnelli

  Funny, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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