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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Power, Moral

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa

Love, Work, God

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Best, Friend, Wishes

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma Gandhi

Service, Noblest, Rendered

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.
Ayn Rand

Life, Love, Live

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Best, Friend, Wishes

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Aristotle

Life, Good, State

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.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Food, Live

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
Marilyn Monroe

Nice, Accepted, Fantasies

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Mean, Stay

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
Eminem

Marriage, Family, Keep

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Work, Live

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Great, Travel, Move

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela

Peace, Fear, Courageous

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus

Men, Freedom, Die

There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.
Geri Halliwell

Someone, Jealous, Down

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
Barack Obama

Time, Equality, Sorry

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

Love, Nothing, Else

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

Love, Money, Wrong

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Great, Travel, Move

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Her, Mistress, Thinks

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Charles Stanley

Leadership, God, Design

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Martin Luther

Peace, Justice, Important

Men exist for the sake of one another.
Marcus Aurelius

Men, Another, Exist

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Great, Influence, Welcome

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
Kevin Bacon

Money, Greed, Once

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.
William Blake

Truth, Tell, Defending

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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Except, Thou

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles

Work, Money, Shall

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey

Growth, Cancer, Ideology

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