Vocation Quotes

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game.

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.

When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

Make your vacation your vocation.

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.

Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

She handled it (her trade) with all the grace that belongs to mastery.

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He will.

The horizon changes but the sun does not.

The most important thing in life is to know the purpose of your calling, your vocation

Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.

For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Making money isn't hard in itself, ' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.

Even his own speeches bored him.

You just became the most interesting person at this party. I don't think anyone here has worked an honest day in their lives.

Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it.

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love