Noble Causes Quotes:

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

- Edmund Burke

source: 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

topic: Passion, Soul, Intuition, Ardent, Noble Causes

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

topic: Giving, Noble, Use, Muddle, High Road

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

topic: Joy, Causes, Finding Happiness, Noble Causes

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

- Joshua Chamberlain

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

topic: Dream, Inspiration, Men, Noble Causes

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

topic: Jobs, People, Leader, Noble Causes

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

- John Wooden

topic: Struggle, Noble, Causes, Noble Causes

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

- Barbara Mertz

topic: Political, Noble, Causes, Noble Causes

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

topic: Thinking, Security And Freedom, Decision, Peace And Security, Noble Causes

...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

topic: Business, Thinking, Organization, Noble Causes

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

topic: Regret, Ignorance, Years, Precious Gifts, Noble Causes

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

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

topic: Good War, Victor's, Good Causes, Noble Causes

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

- Philip Sidney

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

topic: Noble, Ease, Causes, Noble Causes

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

- Ronald Reagan

topic: War, Noble, Causes, Noble Causes

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

- George Weah

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

topic: Fighting, Noble, Causes, Noble Causes

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

topic: Uplifting, College, Support, Underprivileged, Noble Causes

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

- Maya Angelou

topic: Men, Mind, Noble, Human Mind, Noble Causes

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

topic: Grief, Struggle, Ghetto, Ordinary Life, Ordinariness

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

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

topic: War, Sacrifice, Honor, Ignoble, Noble Causes

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

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Writing, People, Encounters, Idealistic, Being Sincere

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

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

topic: Fighting, Men, Giving, Noble Causes

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

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

topic: Heart, People, May, Heart Beating, Noble Causes

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

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Sex, Police, Catholic, Sex Abuse, Noble Causes

We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause.

- Ronald Reagan

source: V-Day Ceremony Address at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, delivered 11 November 1988, Washington D.C.

topic: Sacrifice, Our Veterans, Giving, Veterans Day Inspirational, Gallantry

The American people have on many occasions been willing to shed their own blood for a noble cause, like when hundreds of thousands of Americans participated in the fight against fascism in Europe, and other causes. There are many good people there, and the Cuban people know the American people, we have many examples of solidarity from the American people in every stage of the Cuban people's fight for independence.

- Alejandro Castro Espin

topic: Fighting, Blood, Europe, Noble Causes

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Passion, Soul, Noble, Noble Causes

For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.

- Jan Eliasson

topic: War, Commitment, Noble, Civilians, Peacekeeping

The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.

- Emiliano Zapata

topic: Country, Sacrifice, People, Bandits, Noble Causes

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

- Joe Biden

topic: Home, Opportunity, Blood, World Trade Center, Pentagon

While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our readers will also do, between it and dogmatism. Dogmatism has been the bane of civilization and a curse to mankind. It has degraded our sex, stifled intelligent inquiry, and persecuted every independent reformer and every noble cause.

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

topic: Sex, Powerful, Believe, Intellectual Freedom, Elevating