Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time.… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry — Joel Beeke 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
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
“Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling had one all Time to live in! I should be fifty… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“And if we ourselves have a vocation, if we have not betrayed it, if over the years we have continued to love… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young,… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is… — Pope Francis 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
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
