“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation… — Henry Louis Gates 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
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation… — Brennan Manning 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
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I… — Charles Teo Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . .… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers,… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Only the brave should teach…Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Many people don't understand the difference between a vocation and your own idea about something. A vocation is a call-one you don't… — Dolores Hart Copy Share Image
“A vocation is a terrible thing. To be called out of nature into the supernatural life is at first (or perhaps not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
“In any love-story there are usually two stages or phases. There is the initial stage, where love is expressed by the giving… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
“However vital our choices seem, and however fervently our ambitions burn, God decides our vocation... “We are his workmanship,” writes Paul, “created… — Kathryn Butler Copy Share Image
Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value for… — William J. Reilly, Ph.D Copy Share Image
In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law. — Ken Starr Copy Share Image
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants… — Dwight Edwards Copy Share Image
“Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God's call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.” — John G. Stackhouse Jr 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
We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
“The gift of singleness is more a vocation than an empowerment, although to be sure God is faithful in supporting those He… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation.… — William Safire Copy Share Image
No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
