Sake
Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health.
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Sake Quotations
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.
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
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma Gandhi
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Margaret Thatcher
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
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
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
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
Sake Translations
sake in German is um...willen, seinetwegen
sake in Portuguese is causa
sake in Swedish is skull
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