130 Most Inspiring Lawyers Quotes

I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. – Oliver North

Throughout history, lawyers have played a key role in nation building and the maintenance of fairness. They have defended the rights of individuals as well as ensured that the rule of law always prevails.

This article explores lawyers’ world; their role, what makes them special and how profoundly they influence us.

Though famous lawyer’s quotes are not included here directly, we will look at what their powerful words actually mean to the legal profession.

The Role of Lawyers in Society

Defenders of Justice: Lawyers are often regarded as the custodians of justice. The representation which they offer to individuals, organizations and even governments on legal concerns is pivotal. They must ensure that justice is done whether it be through courts or negotiations or any other way that may be followed.

Advocates for the Vulnerable: It is one of the most inspiring aspects regarding being a lawyer – fighting for those who can’t fight for themselves. Protecting marginalized groups from abuse, ensuring wrongful convictions do not occur or fighting against unfair systems are some examples where lawyers champion those who have nothing.

Navigators of Complex Laws: The ordinary person finds it difficult to understand in detail its operations due to complexity involved with this system. Lawyers perform this function by helping their clients understand what they should do and when they have wronged others under such provisions. This assistance is important both professionally and personally; for instance drafting agreements and preventing litigation.

The Impact of Lawyers on Society

1. Lawyers play a role in shaping legislation. Their expertise and experience enable them to contribute significantly to just laws being formulated. By participating in law-making, they ensure that new legal norms are fair and workable.
2. Human rights are at the heart of many lawyers’ work. They struggle against human trafficking, promote gender equality as well as stand for refugees among other causes. Such endeavors champion human rights around the world.
3. In corporate sector; lawyers ensure that firms are operating according to laws as well as observing ethics. They assist organizations deal with legal hitches, mitigate risks involved when doing business, and support CSR policies aimed at achieving fairer markets worldwide.

Most Powerful Lawyers Quotes About Rights And Justice

• I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. – Mary Roberts Rinehart

• The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. – Jeremy Bentham

• A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client. – John Kennedy

• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. – Charles Lamb

• I am a lawyer by profession. – Kapil Sibal

• I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn’t want to have half my brain sucked out. – Max Walker

• I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. – Steven Wright

• A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. – Mario Puzo

• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost

• 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

• 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. – P. Morgan

• It’s every lawyer’s dream to help shape the law, not just react to it. – Alan Dershowitz

• To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality. – Monica Bellucci

• Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I’ve never met a parent who didn’t want their kid to be a lawyer. – Jessi Klein

• I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue. – Lexa Doig

• Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities. – Janet Reno

• War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

• I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist. – Hugh Jackman

• Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer. – Mohamed ElBaradei

• A good lawyer is a bad Christian. – John Lothrop Motley

• A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped. – William Dunbar

• Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial. – Frank Dane

• In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth. – Robert Kennedy

• My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War. – Cecile Richards

• My background is not typical of a lawyer or a DPP. My dad was a toolmaker before he retired, so he worked in a factory all his life. – Keir Starmer

• They don’t need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster. – Edward Bennett Williams

• Stories let you be the hero, the doctor, the lawyer, the gladiator. They let you go on a journey. – Channing Dungey

• Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. – George Herbert

• From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition. – John Harington

• I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community’s legal and ethical sense. – Joe Jamail

• I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn’t see that salary again until I was on MSNBC. – Cenk Uygur

• Ask any lawyer – if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he’ll prosecute it. – Robert B. Weide

• Ultimately, you are judged by a jury if you are a lawyer speaking to that jury, and you have to show respect to the jury, to the wisdom of the American population. – Clay Travis

• Like any good lawyer, I’m going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence. – Ari Melber

• I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. – Chuck D

• My mom wanted me to be like… a doctor, a lawyer. I was with it, being like a lawyer or something, because you make hella money and I wasn’t tryna be broke. – Lil Mosey

• I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example. – Daniel Goleman

• The two most frightening words in Washington are ‘bipartisan consensus.’ Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help. – J. O’Rourke

• I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals. – Gerard Butler

• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence. – Abraham Lincoln

• I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire. – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

• No one’s calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself. – Channing Tatum

• I’m a lawyer. The right to life is important. – Jejomar Binay

• A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country. – Chief Joseph

• I’d say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you’re smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn’t that different from an actor. He was a poet as well. – Omari Hardwick

• I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful. – Spike Lee

• As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not. – Rodrigo Duterte

• Daredevil’s religion makes him unique. He’s a vigilante, but he’s also a lawyer – and all the while, he believes only God is capable of bringing people to justice. – Charlie Cox

• The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost

• What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce. – Claire Trevor

• I will not lobby. I will not be an influence-type lawyer. I’m a professional lawyer. – Walter F. Mondale

• When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. – Michael Mina

• My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers. – Benicio Del Toro

• In the courtroom, it’s where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There’s a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I’ve always felt that way – I’ve been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. – Woody Harrelson

• I am not a lawyer or an expert on the Constitution. But as the chairman and CEO of a major health plan, I had a ringside seat to the entire health-care reform process. – Ron Williams

• In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator. – Laura Wasser

• For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need. – Joe Jamail

• Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers – the guys who steal all the money and take off. That’s the fun stuff. – John Grisham

• My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like – strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule. – Ty Segall

• Being a lawyer is absolutely stressful in its own right. But then, doing ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ and all the media afterwards, you can imagine, that’s just like a whole new level of stress. – Rachel Lindsay

• My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. – George Weinberg

• Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me. – John C. Reilly

• Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say ‘No’, having it respected. – John Redwood

• My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, ‘Why don’t you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?’ They never said that. – Carine Roitfeld

• While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician. – John George Nicolay

• Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men. – Christian McKay

• My mom’s a lawyer. She was part of the group that wrote the bar exam. My father is a dentist. They’ve always worked. – Daniel Schwartz

• Nobody wants to be a lawyer – it’s hard work. But it was kind of my academic route. – Vinny Guadagnino

• When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, ‘Are you out of your mind?’ – Hillary Clinton

• My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane. – Gary Locke

• I would tell people my dad was all the characters he’s played in movies, because once you say he’s a lawyer or something, they move on. – John David Washington

• It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It’s not because anyone in their right mind says, ‘You know, what’s the most fascinating thing in the world?’ It’s because you need something new that happens every week in a frame. – Amy Bloom

• When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea. – Constance Baker Motley

• As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others. – Cory Booker

• Believe me, I’m not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time. – Cris Collinsworth

• If you didn’t know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you’d think I’m an accountant or a lawyer. – Christopher Guest

• I’m not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible. – Joe Scarborough

• Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it’s really very simple. You’re the artist. It’s your picture that’s going on the CD cover, nobody else’s. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You’ll kick yourself later if you don’t. – Bun E. Carlos

• The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer’s government. – Chauncey Depew

• Before stand-up, I didn’t even have an agent. Once I started doing stand-up – boom. I got an agent. In fact, I got three agents. I got a lawyer. Now I get taken seriously. – Charlie Murphy

• My late mother moved back to her parents’ homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found. – Chrystia Freeland

• When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. – Constance Baker Motley

• A lot of people probably don’t realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you’re not a lawyer. I see everyone on ‘The Good Wife’ – everyone, people who have been there since day one – struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk. – Carrie Preston

• The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature. – Kenneth Anger

• I’m Greek-American, and I come from an immigrant-type background, and Greek-American parents want you to be a doctor or a lawyer. Because that’s how you make money, and it’s very respectable. –Steve Zissis

• I’d rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you. – Albert S. Ruddy

• My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband. – John Conyers

• In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer. – John Amery

• Susan Bloom is a combination of the super agent and the super lawyer. – Conchata Ferrell

• Movies and media really can influence us. A few years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer; since Obama came into office, she now wants to be a lawyer and get into politics and maybe even be president. – Common

• I think, when I was a young lawyer starting out, I was so determined to prove that I was as good as the men and that I could be given the same opportunities as the men, and it wouldn’t make any difference at all that I was a woman. But actually, looking back on it now, I did do things that I wouldn’t recommend to other women at all. – Cherie Blair

• Growing up, Karuna Shinsho on CNN was one of my idols, so I wanted to become either an anchorwoman or an international lawyer. – Claudia Kim

• I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried. – Dinaw Mengestu

• Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet. – John Doolittle

• After I’d been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. – John Grisham

• People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall. – Christine Quinn

• When I was growing up, my mother would always say, ‘It will go on your permanent record.’ There was no ‘permanent record.’ If there were a ‘permanent record,’ I’d never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school… There is a permanent record today, and it’s called the Internet. – Alan Dershowitz

• The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there’s going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there’s someone who can do it just as good or better. – Marcia Gay Harden

• A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he’s won his case. – Alan Dershowitz

• I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age. – Johnnie Cochran

• I’m so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, ‘Ayyyy!’ No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out. – Cardi B

• I was very smart in school. I had straight As and was going to graduate high school at 16 and start college. My dad wanted me to be a lawyer because I was very opinionated. – Dania Ramirez

• I was a lawyer for 10 years – a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him – it’s the American way. – John Grisham

• The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer. – Charles T. Canady

• The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk. – Patrick Murray

• I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I’ve had quite a few people actually say that they’re going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me… the character. I think that’s pretty cool! – Catherine Bell

• I don’t want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer! – Charice Pempengco

• Let us suppose you become a craneman. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer’s office. Give the best that is in you. Let nothing stand in the way of your going on. – Charles M. Schwab

• It’s not like the average lawyer or doctor is a physical Adonis. But it is amazing how many intelligent, obsessed people are driven in their physical regimen as well. – Jason Winston George

• I’m always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons. – Chellie Pingree

• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. – Arthur Schopenhauer

• Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. – Will Rogers

• God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. – Benjamin Franklin

• Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. – Robert Louis Stevenson

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. – Patrick Murray

• I’m not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer. – Anita Hill

• Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. – Hunter S. Thompson

• Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. – Henry David Thoreau

• 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

• Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer – you gotta go to the same guy. – Ronny Chieng

• If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. – Norman Mailer

• The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer. – Christopher Darden

• Reading a brief filled with ad hominem attacks is like listening to my kids fight, except that I have to wait until we’re in the courtroom to tell the attacking lawyer what I think about it. – Raymond Kethledge

• I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer – not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving. – Lisa Randall

• Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That’s a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people. – Rowan Atkinson

• 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

• The good lawyer is the great salesman. – Janet Reno

• I’d always been the kind of lawyer that was attracted back to policy. – David Lammy

• I’m not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories. – Robert Redford

Conclusion

Lawyers are vital for the smooth functioning of a fair society whereby justice is served, human rights respected, and the rule of law adhered to. By dedicating themselves with utmost devotion, possessing skills and maintaining ethical standards, they facilitate such situations. Not using direct quotes here does not mean that actions by many great lawyers do not reflect some inspiring words or reveal how much they impact on humanity.

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FAQs

What qualities make a successful lawyer?

A successful lawyer exhibits integrity, critical thinking abilities as well as persuasiveness as well as being tough enough. They strictly follow an ethical code while constantly trying to learn more things about this profession.

How do lawyers contribute to society?

By standing up for justice; advocating for those who cannot defend themselves; shaping legislation; promoting human rights, through which businesses act ethically within legal frameworks, amongst other roles.

What challenges do lawyers face in their profession?

Some of these challenges include juggling work-life balance; wading through ethical predicaments; adapting into contemporary IT applications while keeping up with paradigm shifts in legal settings.

How is technology impacting the legal profession?

Technology has affected the legal profession through enhanced legal research techniques, virtual courtrooms and other artificial intelligence tools. These changes make lawyers more effective at what they do today and in future.