Sake Quotes

• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Character, Power

  "The Civil Sphere". Book by Jeffrey C. Alexander, p. 388, 2006.

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• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  William Blake

  Trust, Courage, Truth

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• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Smile

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• Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

  Margaret Fuller

  Funny, Life, Meaningful

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.159, tredition

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• Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

  Martin Luther

  Memorial Day, Peace, Ubuntu

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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• For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

  Charles Lamb

  Smoking, Tobacco, Dies

  'A Farewell to Tobacco' l. 122

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• I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Positive Thinking, Kwanzaa, True Joy

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• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Being Yourself, Moving Forward, Inspiration

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Art, Men, Important

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2005). “The Sign of the Four”, p.87, Dramatic Publishing

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• There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

  Elizabeth I

  Country, Anxious, Monarchy

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• Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Practice, Discipline

  "Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion".

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• The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

  David Hockney

  Cheating, Art, Moments

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• I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

  John Keats

  Love, Believe, Valentine's Day

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.313, Harvard University Press

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• I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Ego

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• Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

  George Sand

  Beautiful, Art, Phrases

  Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean, 1872

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• I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.

  Fred Savage

  Confidence, Thinking, Self

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

  Daniel Schorr

  Trying, Needed, Audience

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• People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

  Tom Scholz

  People, Growth, Good Things

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• I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

  Emma Lazarus

  Writing

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• People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

  Jeremy Northam

  Children, Kids, People

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• If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Wedding Poetry, Ifs

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 14.

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• I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Relationship, Bad Ass

  Atlas Shrugged pt. 3, ch. 1 (1957)

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