Quotes about Profession
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Lucille Ball
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
- William James
I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order or in a worldly profession.
- Edith Stein
I am not a comedian, I am an actor.
- Varun Sharma
Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
My parents are actors and never brought work home. I didn't even know what they did until I was about 10 years old. We never talked about it.
- Wyatt Russell
A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
- William Hazlitt
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
- George Bernard Shaw