(416 quotes found)
“The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions”
John Newton
“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.”
Nelson Mandela
“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”
Horace
“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”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”
William Osler
“Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself”
Katharine Hepburn
“Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises”
Margaret Sanger
