Top 100 Own Sake Quotes
#1. To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#2. Be good, Gaia," Capt. Grey told her, his voice grave. She still refused to look at him, but she could feel the heated flush of anger again in her cheeks. "Cooperate with the guards. For your own sake," he continued.
"Be good yourself, Captain," she said bitterly. "If you know how.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#3. Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#4. Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process--which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.
Lytton Strachey
#5. Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
George Santayana
#6. But I do enjoy words - some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent -
Alasdair Gray
#7. The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence
these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
Albert Einstein
#8. Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#9. Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.
Wayne Grudem
#10. Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).
C.S. Lewis
#11. Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
Hannah Arendt
#12. She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#13. This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ...
Freya Stark
#14. There are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.
John D. MacDonald
#15. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.
C.S. Lewis
#16. A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
Aristotle.
#17. We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.
Ayn Rand
#18. Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
H.L. Mencken
#19. Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.
Laura Wasser
#20. I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#21. I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.
Aldous Huxley
#22. So here are our truisms about truth:
Truth is objective.
Truth is good.
Truth is a worthy goal of inquiry.
Truth is worth caring about for its own sake.
Michael P. Lynch
#23. It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#24. If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
J.I. Packer
#25. Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
Colin Powell
#26. He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#27. No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
Benjamin Haydon
#28. When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.
Tawfiq Al-Hakim
#29. I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.
Rob Corddry
#30. Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.
Sri Aurobindo
#31. We never care for anyone for their own sake. We train them for the system. No one matters for their own sake. No one acts for their own sake. The system will always be bigger than you.
E.J. Koh
#32. The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.
Robin Givhan
#33. As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.
Ann Bridge
#34. An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.
Robert Genn
#35. Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#36. It was impossible to convince someone to live for his own sake. But he often thought it would be a more effective treatment to make people feel more urgently the necessity of living for others.
Hanya Yanagihara
#37. [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
#38. To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.
Fulton J. Sheen
#39. There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#40. Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.
Georges Bataille
#41. I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
Ben Shahn
#42. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.
Antony Gormley
#43. Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake, but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us, but specifically to self-sacrifice: not to unselfing ourselves, but to unselfishing ourselves.
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
#44. The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.
Roman Jakobson
#45. There's no such thing as evil for its own sake. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.
Glen Duncan
#46. To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.
George Roche
#47. Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.
Sydney J. Harris
#48. The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
Aristotle.
#49. Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
Emma Donoghue
#50. I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.
Peter Thiel
#51. The man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
Aristotle.
#52. When he [Christ] says 'Forgive your enemies', it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one's own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate.
Oscar Wilde
#53. You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.
Sam Altman
#54. The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake
let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self.
Victor Hugo
#55. The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.
Julius Sumner Miller
#56. Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
Hannah Arendt
#57. The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.
Theodore Roosevelt
#58. What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you ... We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly.
C.S. Lewis
#59. L have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.
Robert Moses
#61. I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.
Suzanne Farrell
#62. To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
Swami Vivekananda
#63. Repenting is a gift God gives us for our own sake, not his.
John Ortberg
#64. Not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
B.F. Skinner
#65. To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own sake without turning your attention to your ultimate destination. Understand, once and for all, that the journey is as important as the destination.
Robin Sharma
#66. The Revolution had reached that classic mature stage where it existed only for its own sake.
Ben Fountain
#67. 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
#68. Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
Ed Miliband
#69. I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.
John Hodgman
#70. Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sake.
Cassandra Clare
#71. Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#72. I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
Jesse Eisenberg
#73. Friendship is special because it is freely chosen. Our friends want us as their friend for our own sake. No other relationship, either professional or kinship, can give what friendship gives.
Hans Reinders
#74. Cupidity ... takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.
Thomas Merton
#75. To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Steven Brust
#76. I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.
Jeff Goldblum
#77. Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.
Tom Verlaine
#78. Murder, of course, is not recommended for its own sake. But it is implicit in
the value - supreme for the romantic - attached to frenzy. Frenzy is the reverse of boredom
Albert Camus
#79. In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
Northrop Frye
#80. We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
Robert Falcon Scott
#81. I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
Maeve Binchy
#82. The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#83. God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#84. justification by faith alone frees me to love my neighbor disinterestedly, for his or her own sake, as my sister or brother, not as the calculated means to my own desired ends.
Timothy George
#85. Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge
Kathleen Wynne
#86. Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.
Max Jacob
#87. Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#88. Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. Wilson
#89. Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far too little of either, and far too much appalling mediocrity, which he thought hideous.
Lloyd Biggle Jr.
#90. 'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it.
Rudolf Virchow
#91. One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater
#92. Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.
Bucky Pope
#93. Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.
Richard Smalley
#94. Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tryon Edwards
#95. It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.
Gelett Burgess
#96. Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.
Klaus Topfer
#97. As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
Juliet Marillier
#98. Will you please go journeying
for your own sake,
till I come living a moment of life?
Suman Pokhrel
#99. The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#100. I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
