Profession Quotes
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It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done. (Quote by - Julia Child)
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. (Quote by - Georges Simenon)
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently, or the world will be lost indeed. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)
Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession. (Quote by - Haven Emerson)
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
Poetry is not a profession, it's a destiny. (Quote by - Mikhail Dudan)
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. (Quote by - William Osier)
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. (Quote by - Sophia Loren)
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession. (Quote by - Dorothy L. Sayers)
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation (Quote by - Horace)
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession. (Quote by - Sir Charles Lyell)
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Politics ought to 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 (Quote by - Dwight David Eisenhower)
Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. (Quote by - Virgil)
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. (Quote by - Jules Renard)
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 multitude of objects and pursuits. (Quote by - Nathaniel Emmons)
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence (Quote by - James Bryce)
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach (Quote by - Bill Muse)
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it. (Quote by - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler)
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
