Own Sake Quotes

#1. Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Charles Kingsley

#2. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Ayn Rand

#3. And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.

Robert Walpole

#4. Learn the writer's craft, write regularly, grow to love the practice for its own sake-and inspiration will either come on a particular day or it won't, but you'll have prepared the way for it.

Dennis Palumbo

#5. If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

John Lancaster Spalding

#6. Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

Alan Hirsch

#7. Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense of religion or secular patriotism converts the destructive into the speciously creative.

Anthony Burgess

#8. The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

Edward Abbey

#9. We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

Miguel De Cervantes

#10. Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Cassandra Clare

#11. My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.

Chelsea Handler

#12. One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

Lisa Kleypas

#13. The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.

Felix Adler

#14. Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.

Byron Katie

#15. I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

Ian Anderson

#16. You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.

Anne Fortier

#17. I wonder if I'll ever forgive Evandar? I wonder even more if I should bother," Aderyn said.
"Of course you should," Nevyn said wearily, "but for your own sake, not his. Hatred binds a man to what he hates, and I think me you need to be free of him.

Katharine Kerr

#18. Guston tacked toward celebrating the crap of life not for its own ironic sake, but as the ever-present still life that surrounds the embarrassingly, even tragically human. No Duchampian object is ever tragic. Many if not most of Guston's objects, even the most hilarious, are.

Ross Feld

#19. Perhaps," the half-breed admitted. "But why fight when there is no need? Why fight just for its own sake? That is not fighting to save anyone, or to win anything, or even for glory. It is fighting from sheer bloodlust, from love of violence alone. And I am sick of that. I want no part of it.

Aaron Rosenberg

#20. Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Walter Scott

#21. He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.

Sebastian Faulks

#22. What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

Susan Cain

#23. I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.

Jan Hus

#24. The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#25. Some of us will admit to a simple fascination with the inner world for its own sake, a fascination with no further goal than the thrill of discovery, the pleasure of engaging the mysterious, dark ground of our own nature.

Sandra Lee Dennis

#26. All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish ... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish ... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.

CLAMP

#27. A bot had to find his own way, and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless." - Mack Megaton

A. Lee Martinez

#28. A man ... must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

Jane Austen

#29. To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

Leonard Peikoff

#30. 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

#31. Respect is not fear and awe; it ... [is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.

Erich Fromm

#32. Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

Andre Simon

#33. Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Jasper Fforde

#34. Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

Dolly Parton

#35. Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.

Mark Twain

#36. Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children
that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

David Lloyd George

#37. God calls you to productivity, but he calls you to the right kind of productivity. He calls you to be productive for his sake, not your own.

Tim Challies

#38. Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

Jane Haddam

#39. Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Roger Stone

#40. A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men's works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

Roger Ascham

#41. Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance.

Matthew Donnelly

#42. The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness.

Anne Katherine

#43. I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

Arjuna Ardagh

#44. The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.

John Cleese

#45. We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

James McGreevey

#46. It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

Emily Giffin

#47. The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

C.S. Lewis

#48. Scientific advancement carries risk. It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine - they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone's sake.

Dan Brown

#49. Beauty is an ultimate value - something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.

Roger Scruton

#50. There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

Saint Augustine

#51. I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Oscar Wilde

#52. A calling is the most satisfying form of work because, as gratification, it is done for its own sake rather than for the material benefits it brings,

Daniel H. Pink

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

John Keats

#54. But I must admit.' he added with a queer laugh, 'that I hoped you would take me for my own sake. A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. But there, I believe my looks are against me.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#55. I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

Billy Joel

#56. To bear ill-feelings torwards someone else is more damaging to the bearer than the recipient.

For your own sake forgive quickly and freely.

Paul Wilson

#57. I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.

Cory Doctorow

#58. The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.

Wendy Mogel

#59. God, if I worship Thee in fear of hell, burn me in hell. And if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not Thine everlasting Beauty.

Aldous Huxley

#60. There is no value in the reading of Scripture for its own sake, but only if it effectively introduces us to Jesus Christ.

John R.W. Stott

#61. I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Peter Hammill

#62. You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

Eckhart Tolle

#63. As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

Henry Ward Beecher

#64. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If

Erich Fromm

#65. I make art for the sake of art . . . and for my own selfish gratification, because I'm an artistic monster.

Lindsey Stirling

#66. I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

Epicurus

#67. Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

Christopher Dodd

#68. We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.

Pamela A. Matson

#69. Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit ... the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

Otto Rank

#70. Fortunately I never came to enjoy the effect of heroin for its own sake, but floating away on a silk pillow was infinitely nicer than grinding my teeth in a drunken, paranoid stupor at the end of a coke binge.

Duff McKagan

#71. Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it's all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.

Steve Denning

#72. Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

Wole Soyinka

#73. Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

Christopher Hitchens

#74. Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.

Amy Waldman

#75. In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Carroll Quigley

#76. Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

Morgan Freeman

#77. It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

Maimonides

#78. A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

John Selden

#79. It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

#80. Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Blaise Pascal

#81. Just for the sake of my own stupid pleasure

Chad Harbach

#82. ( ... ) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. ( ... ) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence - once they became an option - they mutated ... into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born.

Chip Kidd

#83. No one's gonna save me. People just accept help selfishly, for their own sake.

NisiOisiN

#84. It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.

Christopher Hitchens

#85. 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

#86. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Steven Pressfield

#87. We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#88. O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty

Rabi'ah Al-'Adawiyah

#89. There is a joy that brings true happiness, but it is not given to the ungodly. It is only for those who love You for Your own sake. That joy is to know You as You are. This is the happy life, to rejoice in You, of You, and for You.

Augustine Of Hippo

#90. I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

Adrian Lyne

#91. [W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.

Tom Hodgkinson

#92. Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Isaiah Berlin

#93. It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#94. The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.

Edward Snowden

#95. They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom for themselves and their own class.

Margaret Butler

#96. There are--plenty--without you."
"That isn't the point, Rilla-my-Rilla. I'm going for my own sake--to save my soul alive. It will shrink to something small and mean and lifeless if I don't go. That would be worse than blindness or mutilation or any of the things I've feared.

L.M. Montgomery

#97. Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#98. Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

Jack Kornfield

#99. We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

Pema Chodron

#100. One must devote oneself to figuring out that one must live for the good, for its own sake. It was a secular morality. Contemporaries did not know what to call a thing like that - he questioned their every faith, their every way of life - so they called it atheism.

Jennifer Michael Hecht