Career Quote by Karen Swallow Prior

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation…

— Thomas Merton

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

— Parker J. Palmer

“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. —Journal of Thomas Merton”

— Gretchen Rubin

“Thomas Merton asked, “What am I?” and answered, “I am myself a word spoken by God.” How we perceive ourselves, who we think ourselves…

— Stuart Briscoe

“Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't…

— Parker Palmer

Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations…

— Parker J. Palmer

A vocation is the backbone of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference,…

— Wendell Berry

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you.…

— Cinda Williams Chima

Many people don't understand the difference between a vocation and your own idea about something. A vocation is a call-one you don't necessarily want.…

— Dolores Hart

The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need.…

— Eric Greitens