Vocation Quotes
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Vocation Quotes & Sayings
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A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
— John C. Maxwell
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
Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
— Frederick Buechner
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
— Hannah More
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
— Nick Cannon
In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.
— John Carroll
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that ofinspector of desert water holes. — Edward Abbey
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?
— Paulo Freire
It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.
— David Halberstam
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
— Hanif Kureishi
I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
— Louise Erdrich
I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.
— Russell M. Nelson
Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.
— David Talbot
When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves
— Richard Rohr
Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.
— Mother Teresa
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 whole.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Prayer must not be our chance work, but our daily business, our habit and vocation.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Military service is not just a vocation. It is a way of life, an attitude that you carry in your heart even after you are discharged.
— Carlos Wallace
Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.
— Joyce Rachelle
If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.
— Vincent De Paul
Passion does not translate easily into good income.
— Philip Zaleski
You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
— Dorothy Day
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves
— Charles Dickens
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.
— Dave Douglas
She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and pay cheques for them, it hasn't got value in itself.
— Robert Galbraith
Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone's core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.
— Abraham Kuyper
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
— Fulton J. Sheen
had a vocation to concentrate upon: loving and serving God.
— Glenn Cooper
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
— Timothy Keller
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
— Elvis Costello
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
— Charles Dickens
Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: It would kill him if he relaxed.
— Robert A. Caro
The only Christian work is good work well done.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.
— Paul C. Nagel
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve people.
— Leo Tolstoy
The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?
— Matt Chandler
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
— Gertrude Atherton
Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation.
— Andie MacDowell
My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering
— Mare Winningham
You can't have a vocation of No
— Eve Tushnet
Peacemaking is a noble vocation ... To be a peacemaker, you must know the Peace-Giver.
— Billy Graham
Only God can make the common sacred.
— Beth Moore
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
— Derek Walcott
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.
— Gary Chapman
It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.
— Elton Trueblood
The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.
— Robert A. Caro
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein ... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
— Frederick Pollock
My vocation is to make my life an act of worship
— Ashley Judd
Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.
— Thomas Hughes
Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy.
— David Halberstam
One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.
— John Eldredge
We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.
— Theodore Guerin
I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.
— Brian Spellman
Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.
— David Kim
My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
— Therese Of Lisieux
The God-given vocation of theology is to be a servant of the Truth, never his self-appointed master.
— John Clark
He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.
— Paul C. Nagel
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
— Francis Bacon
It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Laborious action is frequently a relic of the preacher's trade in former days.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation!
— Eugene Ionesco
All professions have some element of theater to them.
— David Halberstam
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore De Balzac
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
— Georges Simenon
If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation,As my two eyes make one in sight. — Robert Frost
He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.
— George F. Will
Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.
— Charles W. Colson
I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.
— Chynna Phillips
I like people thinking I'm an asshole. Being an asshole is my life's vocation; I'm a goddamned asshole professional.
— James Alan Gardner
As Frederick Buechner wrote, Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.
— Jeff Goins
A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.
— H.W. Brands
Behind every vocation there is a fetish.
— Hanif Kureishi
To be active is the primary vocation of man.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
