Quotations
Quotes:
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.
View quotes by Sophia Loren
Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.
View quotes by Lauren Bacall
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.
View quotes by Ronald Reagan
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
View quotes by Isaac Watts
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
View quotes by Georges Simenon
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
View quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic Amiel
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
View quotes by James Baldwin
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.
View quotes by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
View quotes by Adlai Stevenson
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
View quotes by Ronald Reagan
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
View quotes by Will Rogers
Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
View quotes by John Gay
We are bound no longer by the straightjacket of the past [and] nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
View quotes by Douglas Macarthur
To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinley
At high school I wanted to be a million different things so acting is the one profession where you can do them all.
View quotes by Krista Vendy
Being the muse of the photographer is what I like about this profession.
View quotes by Nadja Auermann
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.
View quotes by Margaret Sanger
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.
View quotes by Bruce Barton
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