Quotes About Vocation

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

I'm not sure what the Lord has in store for my future, but I can say for certain that music is not my life. Christ is my life. I love writing, singing, and playing songs that He gives me to share, but whatever He has for me in five or ten years, I want to be willing to step into it. I never want to hold so tightly to my vocation that I lose out on His higher plan.

Very few of us ever find our authentic talent—usually it is found for us, as we stumble into a way of life that society rewards us for.

What is one's true talent, his secret gift, his authentic vocation? In what way is one truly unique, and how can he express this uniqueness, give it form, dedicate it to something beyond himself?

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.

However you make your living is where your talent lies

It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.

You are lucky if you know what you want to do in life. You are incredibly lucky if you are able to have a career in it.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

Tuve la impresión de hallarme en sintonía con el destino y de que toda mi vida pasada no había sido sino un largo preparativo para esta hora y para esta prueba [...]. No se me podía reprochar ni que hubiera declarado la guerra ni que me faltara preparación para librarla. Pensé que sabía muchas cosas sobre el particular, y estaba seguro de que no iba a fracasar».

Then you'll go hungry. Unless you change your line of work." "To what?" "Whatever. Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do. Become a priest and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything.

My message is get into what you love and really want to do and can do. And there are these tests you can take for that. All the colleges have them.

It's great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.