Quotes about Profession
We live by faith or we do not live at all. Either we venture or we vegetate. If we venture, we do so by faith, simply because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. We risk marriage on faith or we stay single. We prepare for a profession by faith or we give up before we start. By faith, we move mountains of opposition or we're stopped by molehills.
— Earl Nightingale
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
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
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
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
— Cicero