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The fastest way to attain courage is to follow the chosen Way and be willing to abandon life itself for the sake of justice.
I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.
After four seasons with Tottenham, where I had grown as much as possible, I needed new challenges for the sake of improving.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.
In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.
The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.
I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.
I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.
I like nothing more than a character sacrificing himself or herself for the sake of others. That's drama at its finest for me.
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.
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.
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.
Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.
The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.
I don't want to get on base and just run for the sake of running. What good is it if you steal 100 bases and get caught 60 times?
I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.
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.
I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat.
Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
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.
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
I think Seattle has a great sort of luxury and comfort sensibility, which I oftentimes think is lost in fashion for fashion's sake.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
I have no bad feelings towards Leeds. The fans were amazing and I hope, for their sake especially, that they get what they deserve.
Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
No one can insist me to wear skimpy costumes and to act in steamy scenes just for the sake of pulling more audience to cinema halls.
I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.
He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird.
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.
If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.
There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
For God sakes, this is a woman I was married to for 10 years. We made love. I'd hold her head over the toilet bowl when she threw up.
I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.” ~ Haven Travis