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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

  Herman Melville

  Life And Love, Hate, Heart

  Moby Dick ch. 135 (1851)

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “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.

  John Galt

  Men, Fans, Phrases

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• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Greatness, Vanity, Needs

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• One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

  George W. Bush

  Soul, Moments, Popularity

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• Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Loyalty, Heart

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

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• It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

  Paul Nurse

  Privilege, Might, Way

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• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Cancer

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

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• To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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• Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

  Nelson Mandela

  Courage, Peace, Fear

  "The evil must be forgiven, not forgotten" by Anthony Sampson, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 1994.

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• There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Trying

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• Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Philosophy, Feds

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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• We are here for the sake of others

  Albert Einstein

  Divine Purpose

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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• This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Ideas, Hoaxes

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• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Witty, Party

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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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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• Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  Christian, Scary, Melting

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• I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.

  John of Damascus

  Matter, Worship, Creator

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• We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

  I. L. Peretz

  Drink, Benediction

  "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by M. Samuel, 1948.

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