Vocation Quotes

282 quotes by 216 authors

Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the great potent energies… — Rumi
So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world; and do what? To… — Vincent de Paul
If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it. — Vincent de Paul
We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it… — Mark Hart
My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individualsÂ positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted… — Bell Hooks
Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should be… — Piers Paul Read
Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation… — Gioconda Belli
Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or… — Timothy Keller
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success. — Mark Twain
We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord… — Dwight Edwards
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not… — Albert Camus
I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a… — Mavis Gallant
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. — Susan Sontag
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try… — Sidney Lanier
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not… — Mary MacLane
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for… — Vaclav Havel
Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but… — Parker J. Palmer

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