Quotes About Vocation

I'd have made a terrible nun.

I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

the study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of my fancy that they will never again seek the light. (To his Mother, November 11, 1829)

The Genius populi Romani holds the patera for libations (sometimes in front of a lit altar) and the horn of plenty; these were attributes of the piety and felicity that symbolised Rome's vocation embodied by the emperor Pius Felix, two titles that had been added to his description since the time of Commodus.

What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself.

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."7

Ya lo señaló la formidable (y depresiva) Clarice Lispector: «La vocación es diferente del talento. Se puede tener vocación y no tener talento. Es decir, se puede ser llamado sin saber cómo ir».

talked dolefully about his job—he sold antiques in a shop owned

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

For some constitutions work is the cure for all ills.

I am a leaf on the wind," Lou said, and the man-nurse said, "Dude, don't say that. I don't want to start crying on the job.

The term generally given this sickness in the Christian tradition is "sin," a multivalent term that points to the myriad ways in which humans –individually, collectively, and systemically –neglect, deny, and refuse simply to be human –that is, to embrace and live out their vocation as creatures made in the image of God.

Act! act!—it is to that end we are here. Should we fret ourselves that others are not so perfect as we are, when we ourselves are only somewhat less imperfect than they? Is not this our greatest perfection,—the vocation which has been given to us,—that we must labour for the perfecting of others? Let us rejoice in the prospect of that widely extended field which we are called to cultivate! Let us rejoice that power is given to us, and that our task is infinite!

Primera causa: desconexión de un trabajo con sentido

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.