Causes Quotes - Page 6

• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

  Paul Farmer

  Thinking, Parent, Given

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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Ignorance, History, Literature

  Letter to George Sand, September 8, 1871.

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• But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

  E. M. Forster

  India, Asking, Literature

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 8

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• Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

  Manly Hall

  Weapons

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• Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Beauty, Death, Eternity

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• Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

  Joyce Meyer

  Confused, Simple, Men

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• We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Razors, Appearance

  1687 Newton's First Rule of Reasoning in Philosophy. Philosophiae Naturalis PrincipiaMathematica (translated by Andrew Motte,1729).

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• Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

  Blaise Pascal

  Desire, Our Actions, Responsible

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• A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Religion, Finals

  Alexander Pope (1999). “The Dunciad: In Four Books”, Longman Publishing Group

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• There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Government, Good Causes

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.17, Villard

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• The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Karma, Past

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

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• The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

  J. D. Salinger

  Growing Up, Maturity, Men

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• ...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Three, Daggers

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

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• No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Men, Risk

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

  Hal Holbrook

  Lying, Hate, Thinking

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• Find it within you to love exactly who you are and to know you're capable, you're loved and you're beautiful. The world is a better place, because of you! You are unique, because there is only ONE of you!

  Shantel VanSanten

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Heart, Winning

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.83, Library of America

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• We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

  M. Scott Peck

  Disease, Deals, Physical Health

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Real, Limits, Facts

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• Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Conceited, Conversation, Wit

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• Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Leadership, Stress

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• I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

  Judd Nelson

  Children, Artist, Drunk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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