Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
Carrie Chapman Catt on happiness
Carrie Chapman Catt21 quotes“Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.”
More from Carrie Chapman Catt
If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt Just as the world war is no white man’s war, but every man’s war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman’s struggle, but every woman’s struggle.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by ‘the people’ is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt When a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt The vote has been costly. Prize it…understand what it means and what it can do for your country.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt
Original quotes
From our community writers
We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale
Meet the writers
More on happiness
Be happy with those who are happy, and cry with those who are crying.
Jesus ChristJesus Christ Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
Brad PittBrad Pitt I’m happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It’s really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot.
Melanie MartinezMelanie Martinez Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’m happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It’s really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot.
Melanie MartinezMelanie Martinez I’m not used to writing about happy emotions, I’m just used to pulling from my sad or angry – happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.
Melanie MartinezMelanie Martinez I’m not used to writing about happy emotions, I’m just used to pulling from my sad or angry – happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.
Melanie MartinezMelanie Martinez