Sake Quotes
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
Bette Davis
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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
Freya Stark
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
Aristotle
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...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
B. F. Skinner
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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
Marcel Proust
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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
Confucius
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Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
Vittorio Alfieri
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I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.
Jasper Fforde
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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.
Barbara Branden
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I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
Thomas Aquinas
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Leaving his country for his country's sake.
Charles Fitzgeoffrey
