Quotes about Vocation

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do. Votes: 9

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. Votes: 6

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Votes: 6

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good. Votes: 6

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. Votes: 6

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. Votes: 6

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time. Votes: 6

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. Votes: 5

My first vocation was dance. Votes: 4

My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering Votes: 4

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. Votes: 4

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. Votes: 4

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation. Votes: 4

Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others. Votes: 4

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation. Votes: 4

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. Votes: 4

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. Votes: 4

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. Votes: 4

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. Votes: 4

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls. Votes: 4

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there. Votes: 4

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Votes: 4

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation. It is not what we do but how much love we put into it. Votes: 4

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit. Votes: 3

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day. Votes: 3

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet. Votes: 3

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go. Votes: 3

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation. Votes: 2

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. Votes: 2

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it. Votes: 2

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world. Votes: 2

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is. Votes: 2

Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Votes: 2

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation. Votes: 2

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. Votes: 2

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line. Votes: 2

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. Votes: 2

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. Votes: 2

War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed. Votes: 2

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream. Votes: 2

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible. Votes: 2

Lying is a thriving vocation. Votes: 0

Make your vacation your vocation. Votes: 0

My vocation to preach on paper. Votes: 0

A vocation is the backbone of life. Votes: 0

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed. Votes: 0

To forgive is the vocation of all Christians. Votes: 0

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion. Votes: 0

See your vocation as a God-given path to holiness. Votes: 0

To be active is the primary vocation of man. Votes: 0

Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation. Votes: 0

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation. Votes: 0

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation... Votes: 0

Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it. Votes: 0

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. Votes: 0

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you. Votes: 0

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man. Votes: 0

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation. Votes: 0

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation. Votes: 0

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer. Votes: 0

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call. Votes: 0

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence Votes: 0

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call. Votes: 0

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. Votes: 0

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love. Votes: 0

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success. Votes: 0

My vocation is to make my life an act of worship Votes: 0

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation. Votes: 0

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation. Votes: 0

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. Votes: 0

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. Votes: 0

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability. Votes: 0

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is. Votes: 0

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love. Votes: 0

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. Votes: 0

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. Votes: 0

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. Votes: 0

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. Votes: 0

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation. Votes: 0

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation. Votes: 0

Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself Votes: 0

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life. Votes: 0

Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent. Votes: 0

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need. Votes: 0

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God. Votes: 0

I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation. Votes: 0

It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition. Votes: 0

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation. Votes: 0

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy. Votes: 0

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. Votes: 0

No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry Votes: 0

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone. Votes: 0

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation. Votes: 0

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling. Votes: 0

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation. Votes: 0

Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. Votes: 0

Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation Votes: 0

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it. Votes: 0

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. Votes: 0

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation. Votes: 0

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. Votes: 0

The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans. Votes: 0

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. Votes: 0

I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one. Votes: 0

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is Votes: 0

Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation. Votes: 0

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes. Votes: 0

Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage. Votes: 0

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. Votes: 0

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks. Votes: 0

Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe. Votes: 0

When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation. Votes: 0

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. Votes: 0

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling. Votes: 0

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human? Votes: 0

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. Votes: 0

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. Votes: 0

Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus. Votes: 0

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation. Votes: 0

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do. Votes: 0

Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence. Votes: 0

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law. Votes: 0

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings. Votes: 0

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence. Votes: 0

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills. Votes: 0

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation"”potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world. Votes: 0

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight. Votes: 0

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it. Votes: 0

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. Votes: 0

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. Votes: 0

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right. Votes: 0

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it. Votes: 0

I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means. Votes: 0

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation... Votes: 0

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. Votes: 0

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent. Votes: 0

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. Votes: 0

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship. Votes: 0

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. Votes: 0

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. Votes: 0

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul. Votes: 0

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image. Votes: 0

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck. Votes: 0

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Votes: 0

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. Votes: 0

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses. Votes: 0

To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature. Votes: 0

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise. Votes: 0

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. Votes: 0

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation. Votes: 0

The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human. Votes: 0

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture. Votes: 0

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade Votes: 0

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body? Votes: 0

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Love is a career with its own stages, rewards, and failures a vocation as concrete as a calling in the Church, worth giving a lifetime to. Votes: 0

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole. Votes: 0

The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation. Votes: 0

There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it. Votes: 0

It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs. Votes: 0

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself Votes: 0

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession. Votes: 0

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation. Votes: 0

Don't romanticise your ‘vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no ‘writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page. Votes: 0

Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing. Votes: 0

When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction. Votes: 0

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation. Votes: 0

God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment. Votes: 0

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life. Votes: 0

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds. Votes: 0

It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education anddevelopment of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism. Votes: 0

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . . Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God. Votes: 0

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation. Votes: 0

We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ... no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle. Votes: 0

If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God's ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives. Votes: 0

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other. Votes: 0

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp. Votes: 0

In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique. Votes: 0

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted. Votes: 0

If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed. Votes: 0

Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith. Votes: 0

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art Votes: 0