Vocation Quotes

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

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Beautiful
  • Vocation

• 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
  • Imagination
  • Danger
  • Alternative Futures

• My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Goal

• 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
  • Labor
  • Dignity
  • Vocation

• 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
  • Gratitude
  • Judged
  • Vocation

• That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Neighbor
  • Ministry
  • Godmother

• Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Work
  • Jesus
  • Vocation

• When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Kids
  • Black
  • Jazz

• 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
  • Jobs
  • Games
  • Noble

• If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • God
  • Evil
  • Reason

• Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.

  

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer
  • Organization
  • Innovation
  • Stronger

• Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.

  

  Scott Weiss
  • People
  • Vocation
  • Surround

• We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • World
  • Realizing
  • Vocation

• Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

  

  Reynolds Price
  • Writing
  • Healing
  • Vocation

• 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
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Vocation

• I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Vocation
  • Honorable

• 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
  • Soldier
  • Prison
  • Rebel

• The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Pastor
  • Strategies
  • Business Plan

• I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Pay
  • Careers
  • University

• I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • People
  • Artist
  • Suffering

• That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present manifestation of both white supremacy, white refusal to acknowledge culpability, and the attempts of black people to re-describe the harm and trauma we've endured, as well as to say afresh what it is that must be done if we are to be conscientious.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Serious
  • Intellectual
  • Trauma

• The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Matter
  • Facts
  • Unexpected

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