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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Professions.
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics ought to 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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I see you.
- the movie Avatar
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
See beauty in the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Look In The Mirror to See The Face Of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that when you see Spirit in everything,
peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Shine your Light of God wherever you see darkness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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