Top 100 A Calling Quotes
#1. A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.
John Frederick Demartini
#2. A little light in the dark night
A faint voice is calling you
This way! This way!
This flickering, wavering little voice
Like dew, like a bonfire
The voice of insects
the sound of the water
You can never lose them
once you've heard them ...
Natsumi Mukai
#3. But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
William Ellery Channing
#4. Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.
Pooja Ruprell
#6. You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.
Margaret Mitchell
#7. It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.
Jim Bakker
#8. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer
Sunday Adelaja
#9. Why does anyone fight a war? To protect a way of life, to find or support loved ones. To avenge those lost. Or maybe because it's a calling. Because someone has to. Because there's a line no enemy should be allowed to cross.
Tracy Banghart
#10. A calling is that thing that you can't not do, an answer to the age-old question, "What should I do with my life?
Jeff Goins
#11. I want to know what it feels like to kiss a guy. And you've had a lot of practice, so I know you're a good kisser.
Are you simultaneously complimenting me and calling me a whore?
Abigail Roux
#12. I assumed it was someone trying to sell me something. They're always calling to sell. Once they said if I sent in a check for $99 I'd be pre-approved for a credit card, and I said, Right, sure, and if I step under a pigeon I'm preapproved for a load of shit
Nicole Krauss
#13. You become a candidate for God's love when you are rejected by people
Sunday Adelaja
#14. If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.
Steve Coogan
#15. Joe!' he called. 'Hey, honey, can you get the pretty girl a Coke?'
'Only if you stop calling me *honey*,' the bartender, a bearded man in his thirties, replied. 'We've had this discussion before, Harrison.'
'Aw, Joe. It's so cute that you think I listen.
Kody Keplinger
#16. We can get so wrapped up in looking for the next big move or change of season the Lord might bring us into that we miss His will for us in daily walking out the calling of being a prophetic singer.
Anna Blanc
#17. I was doing that [ a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.
Michael Stipe
#18. If you want to know your purpose, pursue the heart of God and you'll have a head-on collision with your calling.
Renee Swope
#19. At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.
Willie Nelson
#20. You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.
Francis Frangipane
#21. Everyone becomes a believer in a crisis, calling on a God with whom to cut a last-ditch deal. She'd
Liz Jensen
#22. Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it's a vortex that can't and won't be stopped.
Alexandra Bracken
#23. The special calling of the artist is to call the world to a kind of rest or remind it of its restlessness
William A. Dyrness
#24. Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#25. Work is not a curse of God but one of the benefits of living on this earth. Finding the work you love is not a self-serving goal; it is a required component of fulfilling your true calling.
Dan Miller
#26. God always makes a way of escape from complicated situations
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.
Chaim Weizmann
#28. Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.
Ernest Belfort Bax
#29. She loved him for doing things like calling her such a goof. He said it with such warmth and affection, as though her being silly meant something good, instead of how her other boyfriends had felt about it - that being goofy or silly made her a scattered flake who didn't fit into their career plans.
Charlotte Stein
#30. For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had left his calling card, a macabre nursery rhyme. Cassie had never come home.
Elizabeth Heiter
#31. In this method, you don't ask, What do I want from life? You ask a different set of questions: What does life want from me? What are my circumstances calling me to do? In this scheme of things we don't create our lives; we are summoned by life.
David Brooks
#32. One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back." I live by those words when I'm at work.
Cameron West
#33. I've always been a big guy, whether it's been a fat kid, a fat young adult, or a fat adult. I was always sort of ... I guess the term would be 'popular.' I never dealt with a lot of name-calling or any of the bullying you'd think a fat kid might have to deal with.
Jim O'Heir
#34. After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.
John Biddle
#35. No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.
David Klinghoffer
#36. I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable.
Julianne Moore
#37. You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock.
He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling.
Christine Feehan
#38. Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?"
"Are you calling me stupid?"
"Yes, but in a more poetic way!"
"Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!
Colleen Houck
#39. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle
#40. Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.
Thornton Wilder
#41. There are some weird things (such as the Trinity, transubstantiation, incarnation) that we are not meant to understand. Don't even try to understand one of these, for the attempt might destroy it. Learn how to gain fulfilment in calling it a mystery.
Richard Dawkins
#42. Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book.
Christopher Morley
#43. Life was a little like that, I guess. We'd spend so long chasing after something already in motion, always out of reach and calling, just ahead.
Mackenzie Herbert
#45. Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
Elisabeth Elliot
#46. I have people calling me cute. Like I'm a fucking puppy!" she sneered at me, pushing me aside in order to continue on her way. "I am Melody Giovanni Callahan, cute is not the adjective used to describe me!
J.J. McAvoy
#47. The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'
Eric Sevareid
#48. Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
Brian Eno
#49. One day you gone look up and realize that you will be forty years old still calling on 'options' and the rest of us will have husbands or potential husbands and a few children.
Nat L. Johns
#50. You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you.
Steve Forbert
#51. As a result, your subconscious mind will do its best to keep you from a successful marriage, because you have a disagreement between your consciousness and sub consciousness
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.
Horace Bushnell
#53. Brianna," I heard a sweet voice call to me from somewhere above the clouds. "Brianna Valente, this is your captain calling," came that sweet voice again.
Giselle Fox
#54. I was born with a mission and definite purpose and I must achieve my goal and fulfill my destiny on the planet earth
Sunday Adelaja
#55. I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession ... to create a living religion in landscape painting.
Christopher Pearse Cranch
#56. I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.
Aaron Sorkin
#57. They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#58. When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song ... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.
Allison Williams
#59. All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
Black Elk
#60. The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
H.G.Wells
#61. The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.
Lesslie Newbigin
#62. By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
Abraham Lincoln
#63. When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.
Kevin DeYoung
#64. I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
Eddie Izzard
#65. Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book 'for boys' or 'for girls' is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.
Marie Lu
#66. I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.
Jamaica Kincaid
#67. God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.
Dillon Burroughs
#68. Athna, please meet the, uh ... Army of Awesome." Apollo arched a brow. "Or whatever they are calling themselves."
The goddess of wisdom, strategy, and a whole slew of other things inclined her head. "Nice title.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#69. You want me to say yes four times?
God. What do you do when the man you love asks you something?
You say yes.
Four times yes.
What do you do when a Saint loves you?
You love him with all that you possess.
What do you do when Sin comes calling?
You do him.
Katy Evans
#70. If a child is loved, he feels worthy of love in the future
Sunday Adelaja
#71. Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.
Lorrie Moore
#72. Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Zell Miller
#73. I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.
Diane Warren
#74. She's calling our house. What ten-year-old girl needs to call a boy's house? A slutty ten-year-old girl, that's who. She's got her sights on our son, and before we know it, she's going to be giving him blow jobs on the back of the bus and forcing him to watch porn with her. This is our BABY, Carter!
Tara Sivec
#75. I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
Meryl Streep
#76. In a dream, I watch them spin and spin, calling out, pointing the way.
Morrissey
#77. No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#78. Crawford was home for a month from the hospital, the chest pains came again in the night. Instead of calling an ambulance and going through it all again, he chose simply to roll over to the solace of his late wife's side of the bed.
Thomas Harris
#79. I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.
Sara Sheridan
#80. Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'
Bill Maher
#81. When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.
Mindy Kaling
#82. The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.
Donald G. Mitchell
#83. When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.
Michele Bachmann
#85. You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.
James Madison
#86. A person with a victim complex loses on constant complaints and objections
Sunday Adelaja
#87. Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations.
Gloria Furman
#88. A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach ... a multi-sensory perception ... a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you.
Gary Zukav
#89. Every time I can't tell where someone's calling me from in a room and every time I accidentally start to put my earbuds in both ears I think about you.
Maggie Stiefvater
#90. For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.
Alfred Edersheim
#91. I'm pretty sure that wasn't there before," Nick grumbled.
Kelly laughed harder. "I'm pretty sure it was."
"Shut up."
"You're high."
"Oh, look at the pothead calling the kettle names," Nick said in a singsong voice as he settled onto the wide chaise beside Kelly.
Abigail Roux
#92. A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.
Jay Leno
#93. Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you ... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
Rumi
#94. There is a certain calling in your life from the heart of God
Sunday Adelaja
#95. To get rid of complexes and consequently, to finding a more conscious and harmonious life is to see and understand where these distortions occurs in our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#96. Why should I have a calling card? I'm not a call girl!
Melanie
#97. Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.
Dhanush
#98. I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.
Susan B. Anthony
#99. We have come to this earth upon a mission ... that we may have power to go forth and warn the nations of the earth ... As elders of Israel, very few of us fully comprehend our position, our calling, our relationship to God, our responsibility, or work the Lord requires at our hands
G. Homer Durham
#100. Discouragement is a signal of the flesh and the tongue
Sunday Adelaja
