“Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.” HumansHeartChristianChristPracticeMankindShiningProfessionAdmireSecureGood WorkHuman HeartScornDisparityAntipathy Author:David Livingstone
“A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.” WorldCountryUseSidesViewsMankindDangerBecomingHigherCreaturesDeterminationArgumentRoseMereProfessionBeastClientsPreyGrindJurists Author:Andrew Dickson White
“Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.” MenMindEndsBoysMankindMilitaryReturnIntellectualArmyDressesProfessionFacultySensibleSuperiorityLowestMisunderstoodDrummerInstituteBeing Misunderstood Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.” IfsMenHas BeensHardJoyReligionGivenCausesLevelsPayMoralMankindOffersSafeAdvantagePrivilegeSpreadProfessionLovelyGrantedCollectionsSuspectsStomachSalaryMandatesLivelihoodDrearyImmunityTidings Book:Time Enough for Love Source: Time Enough for Love
“Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.” WayWantWorkPleasureMankindOriginalsTradeProfessionViolentLuxuryFormerLatterAvariceDegenerates Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.” PeopleShouldCountryWholeLawJusticeAttitudePracticeMankindCryDutyTrainingTraditionDignityBasesRegardInjusticeProfessionDiscriminationHonorableUnjustJustice For All Author:Nelson Mandela
“The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece, or who can write a book that will influence millions, deserve the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will exert influence throughout the ages long after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have decayed or been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God.” MenWorldGivingWritingLongArtBookSoulAgeBeautifulMillionsInfluenceMankindPaintingSonHonorCallingHealthyBlessingHighestDaughterDeservePaintMotherhoodProfessionDestroyedImmortalAdmirationMasterpieceStatuesFadedSon And DaughterImmortal Soul Author:David O. McKay