Vocation Quotes
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Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
Mother Teresa -
If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled
Mother Teresa
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The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.
Elizabeth Prentiss -
Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching of creation to mankind. All honor to the man who treats it sacredly; who studies, as in God's presence, the thoughts of God which are expressed to him; and makes all things according to the pattern which he is ever ready to show to earnest and reverent genius on the mount.
Jason Paul "J" Brown Five -
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
William Osler -
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
Honore de Balzac -
God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.
Martin Luther -
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.
Hermann Hesse
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I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.
William Everson -
At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without luxury, labour without emolument, and die without notice, that they might stamp God's image on the soul of youth. That surely is a splendid vocation.
Edmund Campion -
May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.
George Washington -
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.
Robert Frost -
Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
William Shakespeare -
I don’t think I have really got much of a vocation for peacetime soldiering
Chris Bonington
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The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.
Henry Louis Gates -
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation. It is not what we do but how much love we put into it.
Mother Teresa -
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 -
The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
August Bournonville -
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 -
Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.
Walter Brueggemann
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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
Albert Szent-Györgyi -
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 -
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.
Scott Weiss -
Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.
Josh Hawley