Top 49 Quotes About Your Vocation
#1. I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work - one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go of the results. Not going to war against anyone else, or against their talents, or against themselves.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#2. If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.
Milton Friedman
#3. 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
#4. Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the entire world of your vocation overnight. Learn to be symbol-makers and story-tellers for the kingdom of God.
N. T. Wright
#5. Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#6. The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.
Eric Greitens
#7. Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.
Mark Twain
#9. If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#10. 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
#11. Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.
Aristotle.
#12. 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
#13. I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.
Chynna Phillips
#14. 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
#15. Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.
Giovanni Ribisi
#16. How you manage yourself between those bright moments, when things aren't going so great, is a measure of how devoted you are to your vocation, and how equipped you are for the weird demands of creative living. Holding yourself together through all the phases of creation is where the real work lies.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#17. Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
Frederick Buechner
#18. Finding your vocation is less about grand moments of discovery and more about a habit of awareness.
Jeff Goins
#19. Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
Aristotle.
#20. Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.
Mother Teresa
#22. The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
Mark Twain
#23. 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.
John Updike
#24. You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
Dorothy Day
#25. One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.
John Eldredge
#26. He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.
David Halberstam
#27. I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.
Tony Kushner
#28. Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
Rick Warren
#29. 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
#30. Your calling may be to find new ways to tell the story of redemption, to create fresh symbols tat will speak of a home for the homeless, the end of exile, the replanting of the garden, the rebuilding of the house.
N. T. Wright
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
Annie Dillard
#35. 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
#36. It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.
Maureen Corrigan
#37. Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.
Satish Kumar
#39. Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself - you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.
Thomas Hughes
#40. 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
#41. It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life.
Sam Keen
#42. Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.
Joe Sacco
#43. 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
#44. You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.
Grenville Kleiser
#45. 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.
Quincy Jones
#46. Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.
Richard J. Foster
#47. Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.
Debra Dean
#48. 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
#49. Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?
Josephine Baker
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