Calling Quotes

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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was… — Rowan Atkinson
I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God… — Teresa of Avila
I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James A. Baldwin
I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for… — Stephen Baldwin
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to… — Henry Adams
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. — Otto von Bismarck
Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to… — Sara Blakely
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're… — Anthony Bourdain
As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a… — Jackson Browne
We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' — Warren Buffett
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal. — Geezer Butler
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. — Octavia Butler
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which… — John Calvin
We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I… — Kirk Cameron
A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they… — Tony Campolo
And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment… — Donald Cargill
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;… — Thomas Carlyle
Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself. — Kris Carr
Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and… — Helena Bonham Carter

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