Noble Causes Quotes

• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Soul, Intuition

  Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Gone, Noble

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.90, Da Capo Press

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

  Winston Churchill

  Noble, Use, Strive

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.90, Da Capo Press

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• If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Life, Joy, Finding Happiness

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• The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Dream, Inspiration, Men

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, People, Leader

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• The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.

  John Wooden

  Struggle, Noble, Causes

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humanity, Promise

  "Unemployment". Winston Churchill's speech at Kinnaird Hall in Dundee, Scotland (October 10, 1908), as quoted in Winston Churchill "Liberalism and the Social Problem" (p. 87), 1909.

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• The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone.  The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Life, Motivational, Dream

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• Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

  Barbara Mertz

  Political, Noble, Politics

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• You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Security And Freedom, Decision

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• ...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Thinking, Organization

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• I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

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• There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is
  to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both
  sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a
  matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best
  generals and the better army!

  Charles Bukowski

  War, Army, Matter

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.263, Canongate Books

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• A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

  Philip Sidney

  Noble, Ease, Causes

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.121

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• It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Noble, Causes

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• My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

  George Weah

  Fighting, Noble, Causes

  "Weah supporters' riots raise fears for Liberian stability" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2005.

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• When an individual from underprivileged background gets higher education, he/she uplifts the entire family. 90% of students at Namal college are from underprivileged backgrounds. I look forward for your support in this noble cause

  Imran Khan

  Uplifting, College, Support

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• The most noble
  cause known to man
  is the liberation
  of the human mind
  and spirit.

  Maya Angelou

  Men, Mind, Noble

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• What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Grief, Struggle, Ghetto

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• Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.

  Linda Grant

  War, Sacrifice, Honor

  Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

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• I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy.

  Oscar Hijuelos

  Writing, People, Encounters

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

  Mike Gayle

  Fighting, Men, Giving

  Mike Gayle (2002). “My Legendary Girlfriend”, p.113, Broadway Books

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• Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

  Tony Blair

  Heart, People, May

  "Blair Steps Down, Takes Up Mideast Peace". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 27, 2007.

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• The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.

  Alex Gibney

  Sex, Police, Catholic

  Source: deadline.com

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