Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have…

“Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.”

Washington Irving

About This Quote

This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation.

Lawyers go to court not for profit but because they have no other occupation.

In simple terms: Lawyers seek purpose beyond money.

Key Takeaway

Find meaning in work beyond earnings.

Themes

purpose law career meaninglessness

Mood

thoughtful serious

Type

philosophical reflective

When to use this quote

career counseling
law school
professional development
ethical debates

Key Concepts

existentialism vocational ethics

Questions to Reflect On

Why do you choose a profession?
How can you align work with purpose?

A Different Perspective

May overlook financial realities.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

More by Washington Irving

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

Washington Irving

Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius…

Washington Irving

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

Washington Irving

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.…

Washington Irving

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest…

Washington Irving

I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with…

Washington Irving

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

Washington Irving

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most…

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it…

Washington Irving

Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in…

Washington Irving

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,…

Washington Irving

There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.

Washington Irving

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of…

Washington Irving

There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games…

Washington Irving

It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will,…

Washington Irving

Explore all 244 Washington Irving quotes

More Business quotes

Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't…

Doug McMillon

You can laugh at me, but I understand show business.

Ksenia Sobchak

“Start a business, not a startup”

Anonymous

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's…

Snoop Dogg

Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words.

Sunil Nagaraj

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I…

Ryan Kavanaugh

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

G-Dragon

“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,…

Nora Ephron

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then…

Jack Ma

“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.”

N.K. Jemisin

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

Bertrand Russell

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

Jim Cooper

I'm not into business at all.

Freddie Mercury

I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation…

Ronald Reagan

Browse all 39,016 Business quotes

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have…

About This Quote

Related quotes

More by Washington Irving

More Business quotes