Vocation Quotes

282 quotes by 216 authors

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. — Molly Ringwald
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of… — Marquis de Custine
My first vocation was dance. — Victoria Abril
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling. — Alden Ehrenreich
May the Santo NiÃ±o continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses… — Pope Francis
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more… — Dennis Kimbro
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. — Pope John Paul II
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to… — Pope John Paul II
Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide.… — Richard M. Nixon
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one… — Thomas Merton
Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation. — David Kim
Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself — Hermann Hesse
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known… — Charles Krauthammer
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for… — Pope Francis
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced,… — Viktor E. Frankl
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to… — Emma Goldman

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