Profession Quotes

“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”

“The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.”

“The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.”

“...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.”

“A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”

“The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.”

“Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.”

“Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.”

“Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!”

“Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.”

“But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?”

“I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.”

“Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?”

“Let passion drive your profession.”

“Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.”

“The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all”

“Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.”

“I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.”

“I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.”

“Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.”

“Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.”

“Let every man practice the art that he knows best.”

“I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.”

“Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.”

“Let a man practise the profession he best knows.[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]”