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
“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
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
“Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents,… — Coleman Sellers II Copy Share Image
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
“the vocation to sanctity is not linked to a call to become a priest, monk, or nun but to sanctify themselves in… — John F. Coverdale Copy Share Image
I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But yield who will their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“To become nobody but your true self and to struggle against the tide of sameness and the false security of simply fitting… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“1877. The vocation of humanity is to show forth the image of God and to be transformed into the image of the… — Catholic Church Copy Share Image
“The right question is whether, when we undertake the work we believe to be our vocation, we experience the joy and humility… — Andy Crouch 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
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
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and… — Pope John Paul II 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
“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
“You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our… — Anonymous 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
Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Never make sport, no matter how lighthearted, of someone’s vocation.” — Rodney Ross Copy Share Image
Serving GOD is unending vocation to those who have truly given their lives to him. — Showa Nina Copy Share Image
You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
A dancer dances.A writer writes. A singer sings. What do you do? Know thyself. — Tassel Daley 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… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image