Vocation Quotes

My vocation to preach on paper.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.”

— Tom Clancy

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

— Edward Abbey

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The only Christian work is good work, well done

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

My vocation is to make my life an act of worship

— Ashley Judd

A vocation is the backbone of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Joel Beeke

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

— Anonymous

“But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation!”

— Eugène Ionesco

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

“the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do”

— john j geddes

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

— Edward Abbey

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

— William Osler

“A vocation is a never-ending mission. In other words, a refined way of avoiding the unknown.”

— Andrés Neuman

The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents,…

— Coleman Sellers II

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which…

— Michael Ignatieff

“the vocation to sanctity is not linked to a call to become a priest, monk, or nun but to sanctify themselves in…

— John F. Coverdale

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…

— Zadie Smith

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

— Gioconda Belli

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

— Parker J. Palmer

Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from…

— A. J. P. Taylor

“To become nobody but your true self and to struggle against the tide of sameness and the false security of simply fitting…

— Michael Meade

“1877. The vocation of humanity is to show forth the image of God and to be transformed into the image of the…

— Catholic Church

“But yield who will their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes…

— Robert Frost

In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I…

— Charles Teo

“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers,…

— Ocean Vuong

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . .…

— James Bryant Conant

Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history…

— Jacques Ellul

When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there…

— Anaïs Nin

The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships…

— Sherry Ortner

“And if we ourselves have a vocation, if we have not betrayed it, if over the years we have continued to love…

— Natalia Ginzburg

Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet…

— Ivan Illich

When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“What is it, in the end, that induces a man to go his own way and to rise out of unconscious identity…

— C.G. Jung

“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape…

— Meia Geddes