Quotes About Vocation

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

I can't imagine life without singing.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world.

Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

There was indeed something rather incongruous in Lucy's moral outburst over Mr. Eager. It was as if one should see the Leonardo on the ceiling of the Sistine. He longed to hint to her that not here lay her vocation; that a woman's power and charm reside in mystery, not in muscular rant. But possibly rant is a sign of vitality: it mars the beautiful creature, but shows that she is alive.

The call of the Word of God to the gospel ministry comes to ALL those who have the gifts for such a ministry.

Everyone should learn a manual trade. It's never too late to become an honest person.

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.

Serving people is never a problem for me, because I've already served all my patients. Even as a doctor, I also wasn't purely a doctor.

It is very important to find a calling and pursue it.