Vocation Quotes
Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.
To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.
One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.
If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.
Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.
In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.
Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.
I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.
We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.
I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you.
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves
A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.
The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.