Vocation Quotes

282 quotes by 216 authors

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love. — Emmanuelle Beart
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to… — Wendell Berry
When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it. — Cate Blanchett
My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do. — Nick Cannon
I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from… — Hugo Chavez
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. — Winston Churchill
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. — Kay Boyle
To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power… — Spencer W. Kimball
... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance. — Anne Rice
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always… — James Bryant Conant
The rediscovery of the value of one's baptism is the basis of the missionary commitment of every Christian, because we see in the Gospel that… — Pope Benedict XVI
Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to… — Nhat Hanh
Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life… — Thomas Adams
We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams,… — Thomas Adams
...The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms, so that all the faithful… — Pope Benedict XVI

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