Quotes About Vocation

Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill his mission.

The purpose of employment is not to make money

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

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.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Music chooses her musicians.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece...