Profession Quotes

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Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have… — William A. Connelly
The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. — George S. Patton
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military. — Douglas MacArthur
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest… — Michel de Montaigne
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm… — George S. Patton
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. — Bertrand Russell
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their… — Cesar Chavez
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth… — Samuel Johnson
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and… — Malcolm X
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his… — Thomas Jefferson
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — Oscar Wilde
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent,… — Primo Levi
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He… — Ernie Pyle
To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession. I feel that… — Yao Ming
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired. — Al McGuire
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… — Bruce Barton
Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go — Anthony de Mello
Let passion drive your profession. — Oprah Winfrey

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