This collection holds 288 amateur quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Chris Jericho and George Bernard Shaw.

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Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.

I never was an amateur wrestler.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs!

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

I started at the Incognito Theatre as an amateur.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

I felt I could play in maybe a dozen tournaments a year as an amateur.

Amateurs do tactics, experts do logistics, as we learn in the military.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

I once played amateur tournament tennis six months without double-faulting.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

When I was a kid, I wrestled my high school amateur wrestling in junior year.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

I'm very, very amateur, which is funny because I'm not in the amateur leagues.

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

Tyson Fury and I go back. He won the amateur championships the same year I did.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.

I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

For my money, Dan Hodge is the greatest amateur wrestler ever produced in the U.S.A.

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