(416 quotes found)
“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”
Benjamin Franklin
“Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.”
Sir Charles Lyell
“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”
Bill Muse
“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“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.”
Virgil
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”
Dan Quayle
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
Ronald Reagan
“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness”
Georges Simenon
“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.”
Sophia Loren