One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only… — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her… — Ling Ma Copy Share Image
It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation. — William Everson Copy Share Image
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do. — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it… — Charles Dickens 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
To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans. — Eugene H. Peterson 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
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim… — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times.… — Brassai 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
Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel… — Steve Stockman 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
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
