Vocation Quotes

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

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

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

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

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.

My first vocation was dance.

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

My vocation is to make my life an act of worship

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.

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.

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

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

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

[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

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

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

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

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

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.

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

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

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.

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.

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

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

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

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

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

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

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

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.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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