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[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… — Ayn Rand
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,… — Jeffrey Zeldman
To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us… — Wendell Berry
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
All great things are done for their own sake. — Robert Frost
Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all. — J C Ryle
I learned to love dance for its own sake. — Suzanne Farrell
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake. — Peter Kreeft
Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake! — William Jacob Holland
Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of departure for genuine… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished… — John Dewey
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake. — Aristotle
I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves. — Thomas Browne
Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you. — Emma Donoghue
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain. — Miguel de Cervantes
Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge — Kathleen Wynne
Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I have never designed a language for its own sake. — Niklaus Wirth
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes… — Tawfiq al-Hakim
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
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own… — Nancy Pearcey
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… — Amy Waldman
We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities... — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound… — Alice Weaver Flaherty

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