When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If I were to ever have a full-fledged vocation, as opposed to a half-assed avocation, I needed to love it and, in… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure -… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
“Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation. Charles: I don't know what that means. Cordelia: It means you can be a nun.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
“Our vocation is not something we do for God- which would put the burden on us to perform and achieve. Instead, it… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I was a stay-at-home mom, with an important job to raise the kids. I filled it into the occupation slot on innumerable… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be… — Richard Roberts Copy Share Image
That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Our work is a vocation to which we have been called from the beginning of time. When we work we are partaking… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public… — Kevin Cramer Copy Share Image
“You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment,… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes even your friends don't understand your calling, your purpose, your vocation. But you have to stand in your truth anyway, and… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job,… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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