Vocation Quotes

282 quotes by 216 authors

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy… — Rick Warren
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation. — Al Yankovic
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight. — Robert Frost
There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There… — Simone de Beauvoir
Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body? — Josephine Baker
The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation... — Henri Nouwen
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the… — Madeleine L'Engle
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins… — James Allen
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does… — Thomas Merton
They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ... — Anna Godbersen
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. — Thomas Merton
Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever,… — Aldo Leopold
Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too! Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that? Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal… — Natsuki Takaya
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary… — Hermann Hesse
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… — Isabel Allende
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. — Parker J. Palmer
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. — C.S. Lewis
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a… — Brennan Manning
You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right. — Dorothy Day

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