Vocation Quotes

282 quotes by 216 authors

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and… — George Washington
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the… — Abraham Lincoln
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed… — George Will
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ...… — Jimmy Page
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go. — Benjamin Moser
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is — Giovanni Ribisi
I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to… — Karl Urban
When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation. — John Tesh
My vocation is to make my life an act of worship — Ashley Judd
Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth… — Bayard Rustin
Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy. — Edward Abbey
Donâ€™t romanticise your â€˜vocationâ€™. You can either write good sentences or you canâ€™t. There is no â€˜writerâ€™s lifestyleâ€™. All that matters is what you leave… — Zadie Smith
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. — Leo Tolstoy
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way.… — Neil Simon
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. — Anne Rice
The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human. — Patricia Deegan
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be… — Scott Weiss
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human? — Paulo Freire

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