Sayings about Causes
Loaning money causes loss of memory. ~ French Proverb
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it. ~ English Proverbs
The consequence is the reward of the cause. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~ German Proverbs
Wars are caused by women and priests. ~ Czech Proverbs
Courage is often caused by fear. ~ French Proverb
Marriages are all happy. It’s having breakfast together that causes all the trouble. ~ Irish Proverbs
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. ~ Hasidic Proverb
More than one war has been caused by a single word. ~ Arabian Proverbs
Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Jealousy is a pain seeking its cause. ~ German Proverbs
A bad cause requires many words. ~ German Proverb
To have two eyes can be cause for pride; but to have one eye is better than to have none. ~ Guinean Proverbs
Drunkenness does not itselfcause bad qualities but it does show them up clearly. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about Causes
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life’s mountaintop experiences.~ Richard M. Nixon
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ~ Julius Caesar
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul. ~ Emma Goldman
Causes don’t need workers so much as they need informed and dedicated advocates. ~ Harold J. Seymour
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
God hides Himself behind causes. ~ Charles Rollin
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. ~ Aesop
Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist. ~ Yasser Arafat
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia. ~ Democritus
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs. ~ Madame Guizot
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ~ Eric Hoffer
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ~ John Stuart Mill
Great causes and little men go ill together. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
God befriend us, as our cause is just. ~ William Shakespeare
Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God’s cause. ~ Thomas E. Dewey
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow. ~ Brigham Young
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ~ C. S. Lewis
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours. ~ Edmund Burke
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. ~ Albert Einstein
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self. ~ William James
I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose. ~ Woodrow Wilson
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way; for want of a block, he will stumble at a straw. ~ Jonathan Swift
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction. ~ John W. Scoville
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. ~ Wendell Phillips
Every effect doth, after a sort, contain, or at least resemble, the cause from which it proceedeth. ~ Richard Hooker
It isn’t until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom. ~ Robin Morgan
Men are blind in their own cause. ~ Heywood Broun
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. ~ Virgil or Vergil
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. ~ Thomas Paine
The general idea of cause is that without which another thing, called the effect, cannot be. The final cause is that for the sake of which anything is done. ~ George William Howard
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all. ~ Ovid
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
They never fail who die in a great cause. ~ Lord Byron
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
Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven’t even begun to live. ~ William P. Merrill
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. ~ Thomas Paine
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes. ~ Brian Moore
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Everything has a cause and the cause of anything is everything. ~ Walter James Redfern Turner
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
Time, motion and wine cause sleep. ~ Ovid
Mine’s not an idle cause. ~ William Shakespeare
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong. ~ Sophocles
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. ~ Lily Tomlin
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. ~ Victor Hugo
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. ~ Mario Andretti
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. ~ Arthur Miller
A rotten cause abides no handling. ~ William Shakespeare
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
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. ~ Voltaire
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.~ Sir Philip Sidney
Every cause produces more than one effect. ~ Herbert Spencer
It becomes extremely hard to disentangle our idea of the cause from the effect by which we know it. ~ Edmund Burke
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. ~ Simone Weil
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. ~ Plutarch
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. ~ Freeman Dyson
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
Truth never damages a cause that is just. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Poverty is not the root cause of crime. ~ Rush Limbaugh
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. ~ Oscar Wilde
