“Great causes and little men go ill together”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.”
Samuel Smiles
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”
William Arthur Ward
“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
“Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion”
Thomas Hobbes
“I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.”
Christopher Fry
“Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba