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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)

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