“I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
A man knows he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live, and begins to live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit. — Pope Francis 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
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
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
“Peace and joy belong not to the woman who finds the right vocation, but to the woman who finds God in any… — Rachel Held Evans 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… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“One of the central challenges of forging peace, justice and freedom in our time is to experiment with political models that promote… — Van Steenwyk, Mark Copy Share Image
An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will offer individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
In the month of October, the universal Church highlights her missionary vocation. Guided by the Holy Spirit she knows she is called… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g.,… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
“However vital our choices seem, and however fervently our ambitions burn, God decides our vocation... “We are his workmanship,” writes Paul, “created… — Kathryn Butler Copy Share Image
“In any love-story there are usually two stages or phases. There is the initial stage, where love is expressed by the giving… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
I have faith that if we caught hold of God's living candle on that truth and went out into the world-I don't… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
“Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?” — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Teaching is supposed to be a vocation for life - not a lifelong vacation. — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe. — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image