No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler

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

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.
Michael Moore

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

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
Louis Farrakhan

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
Jack Kevorkian

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Fran Lebowitz

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
Angelina Jolie

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Dick Cavett

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Simone de Beauvoir

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
Yasser Arafat

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Kanye West

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand Russell

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James

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

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
Jay London

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.
Jay London

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
Scott Adams

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
Richard Pryor

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
Mario Andretti