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
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
Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
More than we care about their "success," vocation, or financial status, our hearts will be encouraged when our kids are faithful followers… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence.… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“Our task is to implement Jesus' unique achievement . We are like the musicians called to play and sing the unique and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“A Christian goes to college to discover his vocation - and to develop skills necessary to occupy a section of cultural, intellectual… — JP Morelands Copy Share Image
“Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Your calling is to be faithful to God where you are, and in doing this all work is sacred, spiritual, and worthy… — Joe Thorn 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
The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
“He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he seek: a clean parchment… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I only auditioned at four schools. I started performing and studying when I was in middle school, and then as I got… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“The vocation of every Christian is to live as a follower of Jesus today. In every aspect of life, in small and… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
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