Quotes About Causes

There are so many causes that you care about, but one can't change or take on the world, so one has to really focus on where you feel you can - to use a very overworked phrase - truly try to do something to make a difference.

Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out. As far as all the attention for it, that's cool if I get it, but I'm not doing it for that reason. Stuff like that doesn't really phase me.

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

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

S]ympathy for people, without any sympathy for what caused their circumstances, [is] not real sympathy but sentimentality.

In seeking other than in myself—as men will—the causes of my tribulations, I have often inclined to lay the blame of much of the ill that befell me, and the ill that in my sinful life I did to others, upon those who held my mother at the baptismal font and concerted that she should bear the name of Monica.

Excessive rural credit was one of the important causes of bank failure during the Great Depression.

What causes lower back pain in females?

It is estimated that American industry loses from $50 billion to $75 billion annually due to absenteeism, company-paid medical expenses, and lost productivity.17 Stress in the lives of the workers is a major cause of these industrial losses.

My parents were both lawyers and were very active in social causes when I was young.

I know what my causes are. And I care about them, so I'd rather get out there and talk about them than just play it safe.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.

The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say.

The way I see it, any attention I get, for whatever reason, just draws more eyes to the causes that I believe in.

I have a lot of people I think are important to me, a lot of different causes I like to talk about also.

Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the case.

I've spent my whole life fighting for leftwing causes, so I can tell you, no one is more surprised than me to be standing as candidate for Nigel Farage's Brexit party.

Since I have become a known face, I want to be part of social causes.

We don't celebrate birthdays in our family; the money was always given towards social causes.