This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

— Michael Tippett

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have,…

— Itzhak Perlman

My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her.

— Jonny Bairstow

Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to survive and…

— Chath Piersath

Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.

— Dustin Poirier

“Keep going even when the going is slow and uncertain. Make your dream your prayer and your service. Don’t wait for recognition. Let it…

— G.G. Renee Hill

My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.

— Goldie Hawn

“The gift of singleness is more a vocation than an empowerment, although to be sure God is faithful in supporting those He calls.”

— John R.W. Stott

“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her in a…

— Ling Ma

It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be something vaguely…

— Matthew Zapruder

“If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you need to be an actor, do.”

— Derek Jacobi

We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only to hear…

— Jean Danielou

“The vocation of a man lies in his vision.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

— Jessye Norman

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and…

— Therese of Lisieux