55+ Motivational Lawyer Quotes To Never Give Up
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Lawyers are professionals who practice law.
Lawyers play a major role in everyday life. They are involved in various documentations in the corporate world, real-estate, business establishments, and criminal cases.
Lawyers usually are perceived to be working under tremendous stress, where they come across corporate crimes, small petty thefts, or litigations. Every case they handle is unique and requires a lot of research.
It has been found that many lawyers experience high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. Losing hope, giving up on a case usually do happen with lawyers.
Here is a collection of the best motivational lawyer quotes that inspire you never to give up. If you are looking for more relevant quotes, you may also want to check [Justice] and [Human Rights] quotes.
Abraham Lincoln Lawyer Quotes
Abraham Lincoln was a self-taught lawyer. He practiced law in Illinois after he was admitted into the bar in September 1836. Here we bring these enlightening lawyer quotes from him.
1."The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence."
-Abraham Lincoln
2."These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have."
-Abraham Lincoln
3."If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
-Abraham Lincoln
4."No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."
-Abraham Lincoln
5."With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
-Abraham Lincoln
6."No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
-Abraham Lincoln
7."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
Funny Lawyer Quotes And Sayings
Lawyers are always under stress to address their client's needs. These lawyer quotes act as a stress buster and let you relax for a while before you take the next plunge into those law books and documents.
8."The minute you read something you can’t understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer."
-Will Rogers
9."A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
-Robert Frost
10."I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."
-Steven Wright
11.“After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.”
– Michelle Alexander
12.“A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.”
– Patrick Murray
13."So, in a way, I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer."
-Frank Shorter
14."If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
-B. C. Forbes.
Inspirational Lawyer Quotes
Pursuing law can be inspiring. But practicing law can lead to stress as well as success. Here we bring you a few quotes that sum up what makes a good lawyer. Check these inspirational quotes, and keep trying. Never give up!
15."Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."
-Will Rogers
16."Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide."
-Joe Jamail
17."Either you run the day or the day runs you."
-Jim Rohn
18."A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
-Mario Puzo
19."Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial."
-Frank Dane
20."Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect."
-Hunter S. Thompson
Famous Lawyer Quotes
We feel comfortable when we hear from our seniors, colleagues, or peers. These famous quotes from people who practiced law and dealt with lawyers can give you a feeling that you are not alone.
21."But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance."
-William Julius Wilson
22.“Complacency has taken the place of outrage and demands for justice have been substituted for trending hashtags and unified profile pictures.”
-Aysha Taryam
23.“I contend that the cry of 'Black Power' is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
24.“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
-Henry David Thoreau
25.“A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook."
-Mahathir Mohamad
26."I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer."
-Oliver North
27."As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue."
-David Hunt
Best Lawyer Quotes
While you have gone through some inspirational and funny quotes, here we bring a few evergreen lawyer quotes from famous people on what makes a good lawyer.
28."It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."
-Edmund Burke
29.“Lawyers are operators of toll bridges which anyone in search of justice must pass.”
-Jane Bryant Quinn
30.“If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.”
-Charles Dickens
31."Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
-Holmes
32.“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
-James Baldwin
33."Lawyer: The only man in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
-Elbert Hubbard
34.“It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us — our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make our laws."
-Fred Rodell
35.“A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”
-Thomas Jefferson
36."Law has no compassion. And Justice is administered without compassion."
-Christopher Darden
Future Lawyer Quotes
Being a lawyer is an evergreen profession. Wherever there are bad people, there is the law and there is a lawyer, who fights for justice. Here we bring a collection of lawyer quotes that would be relevant in the days ahead.
37."Arguing with a lawyer is not the hardest thing in the world; not arguing is."
-Raheel Farooq
38."If there was no law, there would be no discipline in this world."
-Unknown*
39."He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."
-Charles Lamb
40."Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing."
-Peter Singer
41."Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks."
-Preet Bharara
42."I will prepare and some day my chance will come. "
-Abraham Lincoln
43.“The reality is that to succeed in law you have to put your nose to the grindstone for a good few years and watch, learn, develop and grow.”
-David Reilly
44."The law is a horrible business."
-Clarence Darrow
Good Lawyer Quotes
Good lawyers are great storytellers. Here we bring some amazing quotes about good lawyers, and what it means to be a lawyer.
45."The lawyers’ truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
-Henry David Thoreau
46.“In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.”
47."Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."
- J. P. Morgan
48."There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers."
-Melvin Belli
49."I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity these values mean a lot to me."
-Mohamed ElBaradei
50."It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour."
-Jefferson
51."I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!"
-Rand Paul
51."I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms."
-Ted Cruz
Lawyer Quotes - Shakespeare
It is assumed Shakespeare was not a lawyer of his times. However, his literary work mostly tells us how fascinated he was about law. Here we bring a few Shakespeare quotes for you.
52."We have strict statutes and most biting laws."
-William Shakespeare, 'Measure for Measure' 1.3.21.
53."Good counselors lack no clients"
-William Shakespeare, 'Measure for Measure' 1.2.198-99.
54."All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen, They call false caterpillars, and intend their death."
-William Shakespeare, '2 Henry VI' 4.4.36.
55.“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
-William Shakespeare, 'King Henry VI' Part 2.
56."Lawless are they that make their wills their law."
-William Shakespeare.
Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for Lawyer Quotes then why not take a look at [Activism quotes], or Protest quotes.
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