Sake Quotes - Page 29

• Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.

  Caroline Myss

  Jobs, Self Worth, Personal Power

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Invisible Acts of Power: The Divine Energy of a Giving Heart”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate

  Rumi

  Hate, Heart, People

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• Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Endeavor, Communicate, Truth Love

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.359

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• Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Games, Tasks, Evolution

  Rudolf Steiner (1993). “The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness”, p.86, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Church, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

  Parker J. Palmer

  Death, Real, Comforting

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring”, Jossey-Bass

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• It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Order, Doubt, Quiet

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• My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

  William James

  Thinking, Lasts, Firsts

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

  William McKinley

  Humanity, Flags, Territory

  William McKinley's remarks on 1900 US campaign poster of McKinley and his choice for second term Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, July 12, 1900.

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• We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

  Alice Walker

  Children, People, Genius

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• We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

  Loretta Lynch

  Responsibility, Generations, Endangered Species Act

  "Philadelphia art store owner charged with smuggling African ivory", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2011.

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• Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. 'For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.' (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Judging, Sensual, Hardship

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• Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

  Don Young

  Ice, Scotland, Agriculture

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• Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

  Robert Browning

  Joy, Thank God, Desire

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• The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Form, Reproach

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.942, Wordsworth Editions

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• Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

  Christopher Plummer

  Art, Fun, Suffering

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• For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sight, Catholic, Littles

  "The Imitation of Christ".

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• Looking at my life
  I see that only Love
  Has been my soul’s companion
  From deep inside
  My soul cries out:
  Do not wait, surrender
  For the sake of Love.

  Rumi

  Waiting, Soul, Cry

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• AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Malaria, World

  "'In face of the threat posed by Aids we must rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save people'" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Cynical

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• The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

  Richard Bach

  Perfection, Gulls, Scorn

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

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• Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Class

  "The Only Path to Tommorow". Readers Digest, pp. 88-90, January, 1944.

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• Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Decision, Determined, Realizing

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• For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they should remain as they were before they received grace and mercy; but he condones and forgives both sin and death for the sake of Christ, who has fulfilled the whole Law in order thereby to make the heart sweet and through the Holy Spirit to kindle and move the heart to begin to love from day to day more and more.

  Martin Luther

  Sweet, Moving, Heart

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