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"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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession." »Charles J. C. Lyall
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"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children." »Dan Quayle
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth." »Will Rogers
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"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession." »George Bernard Shaw
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"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"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
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"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it" »Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"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
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"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk." »Edward De Bono
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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." »Ronald Reagan
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"The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably." »George Bernard Shaw
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"For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does." »Cathleen Douglas
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"It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living." »Bertrand Russell
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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." »James Baldwin
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"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"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." »Phyllis Mcginley
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"Politics should 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." »Lucille Ball
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"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." »Isaac Watts
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"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." »Isaac Watts
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"Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies." »Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
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"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 much further than people with vastly superior talent." »Sophia Loren
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"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." »Sigmund Freud
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"Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege." »Herbert Hoover
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"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve." »Sophia Loren
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"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process." »Aldous Huxley
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"Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel." »William Hazlitt
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