Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one. — Henrietta Rose-Innes Copy Share Image
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be… — Richard Roberts Copy Share Image
I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public… — Kevin Cramer Copy Share Image
What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
“You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world; and… — Vincent de Paul 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
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
“I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
“When the maker's (or fixer's) activity is immediately situated within a community of use, it can be enlivened by this kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My dear Mr FitzGeorge!' cried Lady Slane. 'You really mustn't talk as though my life had been a tragedy. I had everything… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 19, "Willi Ossa") "...when I did [become a pastor], I knew that it was a vocation, not a job. I… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The Church knows fully that its message is in harmony with the most secret desires of the human heart, when it champions… — Andrew Davison 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
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
“When, then, I ask what I ought to do every day, the answer is found in my vocation. What is my station… — Bryan Wolfmueller Copy Share Image
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human? — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Our work is a vocation to which we have been called from the beginning of time. When we work we are partaking… — Peggy Noonan 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
I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Sometimes even your friends don't understand your calling, your purpose, your vocation. But you have to stand in your truth anyway, and… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment,… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings. — Marjo-Riikka Makela Copy Share Image
That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
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