Quotes About Vocation

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

It was not an easy vocation, being a priest in that country, where magic was vibrantly everywhere, maddening and unquenchable, and the gods were assumed to be a kind of super-fairy except that you never saw them nor were offered any concrete proof of what the priests claimed they had done for you.

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 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." —from Demian by Hermann Hesse

I cannot countenance the traditional belief that postulates a natural dichotomy between the objectivity of the scientist and the subjectivity of the writer, as if the former were endowed with a 'freedom' and the latter with a 'vocation' equally suitable for spiriting away or sublimating the actual limitations of their situation. What I claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life.

The Puritan divine Richard Steele wrote, God doth call every man and woman…to serve him in some peculiar employment in this world, both for their own and the common good.…The Great Governor of the world hath appointed to every man his proper post and province.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

He worked as one of the two servants allowed Milbourne in his capacity as ship's carpenter: 'servant' in this context meaning an apprentice under training. Both

We have been conditioned by today's advertising to respond instantly to the word housewife with the word drudgery. ... A creative Counterpart is more than just a helper. She is a woman who having chosen (or have found herself in) the vocation of wife and mother, decides to learn and grow in all the areas this role and to work as hard as if she were aiming for the presidency of corporation. Functioning as a professional in all areas of marriage is the essence of being a creative counterpart.

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Beaupré, in his native country, had been a hairdresser, then a soldier in Prussia, and then had come to Russia to be outchitel, without very well knowing the meaning of this word.3

You can't insist on a life. A life insists on you.

Nursing is more than a career; it is a calling. Nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects them.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

Our human vocation is to work and take care of the place where God has planted us, to serve him in our rule in creation as priests in his temple. Caring for the earth is not, in this light, a peripheral biblical theme; it is central to our identity as God's image bearers.

The church has ministers—which was a gift of Jesus Christ Himself from Heaven—and the church also has a professional class, which may or may not be a gift from Heaven.

Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.