Top 100 Quotes About Vocation
#1. Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
Tabare Vazquez
#2. This man did not deal in fairy tales. You could see that as soon as you walked into his office. Schevitz was somebody who liked to be proved right, somebody whose wish to prevail was his vocation.
Philip Roth
#3. The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
August Bournonville
#4. A true vocation calls us out beyond ourselves; breaks our heart in the process and then humbles, simplifies and enlightens us about the hidden, core nature of the work that enticed us in the first place.
David Whyte
#5. My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
Albert Camus
#6. Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
Christina Baker Kline
#7. Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.
Edith Stein
#8. 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 fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.
Parker J. Palmer
#10. Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
Pope John Paul II
#11. Another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations-projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves-and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.
Parker J. Palmer
#12. My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
Al Yankovic
#13. We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.
Hannah More
#14. Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions.
Parker J. Palmer
#15. If I am an artist, I have a vocation. As one drawn to a lover or called to a religious mission, I go to my work - my writing - because it is essential to my happiness.
Pat Schneider
#17. No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.
Leon Botstein
#18. 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
#19. I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
Chris Isaak
#20. M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priesthood meant a call from the bishop, not necessarily a call from God. And I heard the Bishop of Rome himself call you to be that which you have now become by ordination and consecration.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#21. And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a man who has surely failed, who ought to have adopted a less adventurous vocation
T. S. Eliot
#23. 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
#24. 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.
Jason Epstein
#25. The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.
Saint Basil
#26. Is this true? Those who had world' enough, that is, those engaged in a demanding daily vocation, were short of time while those without regular obligations had more than sufficient time, but no world?
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
#27. 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
#28. If we have been given the vocation and grace to die with Christ then the everyday and banal occurrence which we call human death has been elevated to a place among God's mysteries.
Karl Rahner
#29. My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
Nick Cannon
#30. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Honore De Balzac
#31. God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer.
Gerard De Marigny
#32. Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.
Aldo Leopold
#33. The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#34. You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
Dorothy Day
#35. Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
Luc De Clapiers
#36. I confess that I enjoy this vocation, in spite of my sex. I feel a certain thrill, as if I were visiting a lover. But it is money I court, money that woos me, and the intoxicating power to earn a very great deal.
Sandra Gulland
#37. You have made danger your vocation; there is nothing contemptible in that. Now you perish of your vocation: for that I will bury you with my own hands
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.
William Safire
#40. Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.
Ernest Renan
#42. There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'
There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
Simone De Beauvoir
#44. Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.
Tony Dungy
#45. Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
inspector of desert water holes.
Edward Abbey
#46. Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.
Giovanni Ribisi
#47. I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.
Chynna Phillips
#48. Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
Edith Stein
#49. Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation ... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.
Pope John Paul II
#50. Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.
Pope Francis
#51. I'll enter some faculty or other, get a degree in a sunject that doesn't interest me but that will help me earn a living. Painting will just recede to the background, and I'll end up forgetting my vocation.
Paulo Coelho
#52. God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.
Martin Luther
#53. Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny ... To work out our identity in God.
Thomas Merton
#54. When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.
Jacques Ellul
#55. Just as any work can be made into a miserable bore, any vocation can be a source of joy
Eric Greitens
#56. The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today ...
... some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#58. The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
Hanif Kureishi
#59. I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyim. That's my hope and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.
Jean-Marie Lustiger
#60. The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.
Lawrence Reed
#62. After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.
George Eliot
#63. Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
Mary Gordon
#64. I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.
James Nesbitt
#65. 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
#66. By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.
R. H. Tawney
#67. My vocation is to make my life an act of worship
Ashley Judd
#68. Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#69. To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.
Mircea Eliade
#70. Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.
Stephen Cope
#71. I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
Mavis Gallant
#73. God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.
Pope Francis
#74. If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humoured to me when I addressed him; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries: but the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease
Charlotte Bronte
#75. What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
Pope John Paul II
#76. Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.
Aristotle.
#77. Powerful Leaders intentionally pursue their vocation of who they are not a career of what they do; what's calling you?
Michael Walker
#78. [Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself
Pope Benedict XVI
#79. It is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never be used as the food of the individual.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#80. The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.
Patricia Deegan
#81. The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman
#82. Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.
Henry James
#83. Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.
David Kim
#84. Most valuable art in our time has been experienced by audiences as a move into silence (or unintelligibility or invisibility or inaudibility); a dismantling of the artist's competence, his responsible sense of vocation - and therefore as an aggression against them. Modern
Susan Sontag
#85. But I believe that even without the consideration of his family he would find it impossible to live abroad. He would be a man without a purpose; for his purpose, his vocation, is Egypt.
Ahdaf Soueif
#86. Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.
Alan Keyes
#87. You already have some sense of what you're supposed to do with your life, even if you aren't sure what it is. The trick is to find your vocation hidden in your life.
Jeff Goins
#88. I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
Derek Walcott
#89. Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.
Robert Lowell
#90. But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.
Alanis Morissette
#91. Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry Flynt
#92. Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
Edward Hirsch
#93. Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.
Nhat Hanh
#94. To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.
Spencer W. Kimball
#95. Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.
Voltaire
#96. Don't romanticise your 'vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Zadie Smith
#97. 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. The only thing I ever wanted to be was an actress. But I was called by God.
Dolores Hart
#98. The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable ... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)
Wendell Berry
#99. Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#100. Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
Benjamin Moser
