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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

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is. — Martin Luther

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

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

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

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing. — Harold Bloom

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 of
inspector 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

A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp. — H.W. Brands

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

She handled it (her trade) with all the grace that belongs to mastery. — George Eliot

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 think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it. — James Nesbitt

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 artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. — George Sand

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

If you want to be an actor, don't. If you need to be an actor, do. — Derek Jacobi

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

And since, through lack of vocation or from habit, [Julie] was prone to confuse pity with boredom, she felt herself practically a prisoner ... — Colette

You can't have a vocation of No — Eve Tushnet

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. — Mother Teresa

Peacemaking is a noble vocation ... To be a peacemaker, you must know the Peace-Giver. — Billy Graham

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance. — Anne Rice

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

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love. — Matt Perman

I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late. — Brian Spellman

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation. — Henry James

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

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation. — Edith Wharton

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

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams. — H.W. Brands

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

Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation — Pope Francis

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. — Mark Twain

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

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. — Jean Rostand