Vocation Quotations

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

Over the years, my work became both my vocation and avocation. Since I enjoyed it so much, I never felt a great need to go outside for relaxation. Nevertheless, I became an avid photographer and traveler. Possibly my love for travel stems from the early years when my family seldom went away on vacation.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

If you are creative enough to select the ideal vocation, you can win, win big time. The really brilliant millionaires are those who selected a vocation that they love, one that has few competitors but generates high profits.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.

A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.

I have been in this education business for more than 35 years now. I know firsthand that teaching is more than just a job - it is a true vocation - a calling that requires dedication and daily sacrifice,

He was just beginning to find his vocation and to escape from the orbit of his father,

I'm a hard worker, but I love food. The hours are long, but you have to have a vocation to serve people -- that's what it's all about.

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

We are today on the verge of a new era, not just for Ecuador and Peru, but also for our entire continent, which confirms our vocation for peaceful co-existence and universal cooperation,

My vocation is to make my life an act of worship

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

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

We would want to exhaust every possible means for a peaceful solution, and I think that is the vocation of the Security Council.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.

I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.

In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

By some beautiful twist of fate I've landed in this vocation that demands that I feel and helps me to learn, ... No film has moved or taught me more than 'A Beautiful Mind.'

The vocation of Europe and of European institutions is also, and above all, to defend Europe, to defend the economic, financial and social interests of Europe,

The bottom line is a man's got to have a vocation of some kind. But performing in concert has its own rewards, though I have to admit that up until a few years ago I was very nervous being up there. I finally learned to be who I am and relax. When you do that, it's just like being down there with the audience.

Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.

I don't think this is a show about the priesthood. This is a show about guys who are discerning their vocation to the priesthood. You learn a lot of things about priests, about the Catholic Church. But it's really about these guys and their struggles between two goods.

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

My vocation to preach on paper.

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.

My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

My first vocation was dance.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life . . . Therein he cannotbe replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as ishis specific opportunity to implement it.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

Make your vacation your vocation.

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

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

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

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. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.