(416 quotes found)
“Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.”
Irving R. Kaufman
“I've never professed to be anything but an average student.”
Dan Quayle
“Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.”
Will Rogers
“As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, "Let there be light," constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.”
Bruce Barton
“HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.”
Ambrose Bierce
“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 that I could bring to it.”
Rose F. Kennedy
“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly”
Corra Harris
“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
Jules Renard
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
James Arthur Baldwin