Sake Quotes

Men exist for the sake of one another. (Marcus Aurelius)
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. View quote
Epictetus
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
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. And to act so is immoral. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
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. View quote
Ayn Rand
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. View quote
Alphonse de Lamartine
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. (Edward Abbey)
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. View quote
John Donne
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. View quote
Ernest Renan
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
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. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. View quote
E. M. Forster
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. View quote
Margaret Fuller
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. (Charles Lamb)
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. View quote
William Blake
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. View quote
Desmond Tutu
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. View quote
Herman Melville
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them. View quote
Antonio Porchia