Own Sake Quotes

211 quotes by 175 authors

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… — Steven Brust
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me… — Rabia Basri
Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. — Robert Bunsen
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake.… — Amartya Sen
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not… — Aristotle
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… — Henry Ward Beecher
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… — George Santayana
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… — Gelett Burgess
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer
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… — Isaiah Berlin
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to… — Ayn Rand
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth. — Miguel de Unamuno
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.… — Rajneesh
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… — Saint Augustine
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its… — James C. Collins
'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… — Rudolf Virchow
If a person forges ahead in the light and yet has lost his care for the others, the purpose of the light is wasted. God… — Johan Oscar Smith

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