Vocation Quotes
Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.
You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.
He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.
I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.
Passion does not translate easily into good income.
If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.
Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.
Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.
As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.
The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.
One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.
Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.
I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath, and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams
The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal
The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.
Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.
He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.
What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?
I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie
How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII
He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.
The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.
Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.
When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.
A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.
He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.
I choose me bristles with prideYes, I doA broom for the shaftAnd a broom for the flumeThough I'm covered with soot From me 'ead to me toesA sweep knows 'e's welcomeWherever 'e goes
The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau.
The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.
Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.
Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?
Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.
Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.
I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.
Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.
Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.
It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.
Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.
Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.