Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

Petrarch

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Nisha Singhania

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Baha'u'llah

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Gina Bellman

My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Campbell Scott

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Garson Kanin

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

Mason Cooley

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.