Profession Quotes

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

Politics, Learned, Said

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

Politics, Realize, Close

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

Politics, Yourself, Bad

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

Fitness, Children, Important

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost

Poet, Condition

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
George Bernard Shaw

Person, Skeptic, Mastered

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn

Time, Nice, Yourself

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will Rogers

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Hillary Clinton

Trust, Business, Finance

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso

Himself, Seen, Painting

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 D. Eisenhower

Politics, Good, Free

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
John Wooden

Future, Society, Single

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics, Thought, Necessary

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature, Successful, Study

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn

Perfect, Idiot, Acting

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Katharine Hepburn

Business, Egocentric

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics, True, Serious

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Today, Sense

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 Kennedy

Love, Work, Best

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
Samuel Butler

Him, Cannot, Stand

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot

Success, Best, Thinks

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
John Steinbeck

Pride, Grateful, Lion

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James A. Baldwin

Knowledge, Ugly, Side

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush Limbaugh

Good, Great, Help

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dreams, Great, Successful

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

Peace, War, Soldier

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
Charles Lyell

Good, Call, Credit

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
Chili Davis

Good, Society, Bad

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

Faith, Great, Yourself

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia Woolf

Father, Less, Slavery

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