I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation. — William Everson Copy Share Image
Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.” — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
“The right question is whether, when we undertake the work we believe to be our vocation, we experience the joy and humility… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Only the brave should teach…Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Many people don't understand the difference between a vocation and your own idea about something. A vocation is a call-one you don't… — Dolores Hart Copy Share Image
“Crossing the threshold of faith means that we work out of a sense of dignity and see service as a vocation. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections,… — Ernesto Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and… — Os Guinness 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
