“Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.”

“One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.”

“Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.”

“The reward of joy is joy itself; not for its own sake; but for the sake of others.”

“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”

“In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.”

“… there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.”

“Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.”

“The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake…can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.”

“To enjoy—to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.”