Vocation Quotes

Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth ...

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where hi...

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim direc...

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is...

The only Christian work is good work well done.

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better tha...

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fight...

Vocation” comes from the Latin vocare (to call) and means the work a man is called to by God.There a...

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be ...

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of t...

She handled it (her trade) with all the grace that belongs to mastery.

For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined fo...

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the ...

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long for...

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling hadone all Time to live in! I should be fifty Ye...

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has...

The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also wi...

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working wit...

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativi...

A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole...

I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.

Fast rather than slow, more rather than less--this flashy "development" is linked directly to societ...

In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be cl...

In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hard...

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to...

Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a per...

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men ar...

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remot...

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judg...

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God'...

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such wo...

There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we ar...

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything - but I want to work out something in figures ...

My dear Mr FitzGeorge!' cried Lady Slane. 'You really mustn't talk as though my life had been a trag...

Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen...

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet ...

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he se...

M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priest...

The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice ...

The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predic...

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nat...

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is ...

, “As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except th...

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I...

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pourin...

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not le...

For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for