Quotes About Vocation

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one's true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.

Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.

Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.

La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

I enjoy what I do and it's a great way to live your life.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

Being an artist is a job for life.

am born a poet, of a low class without doubt yet a poet. This is my nature and vocation")

Some of you may be struggling with discovering your vocation and feeling a little frustrated that your intuition is not helping you more. Alas, intuition can also stand in your way because it makes you aware of too many inner voices speaking for too many different possibilities.

Tengo vocación de pobre", decía como excusa para su ruina progresiva. Los días del hombre le parecían de una brevedad insoportable para dedicarlos al esfuerzo del dinero.

I once had a conversation with the director of a monastery. "Everyone who comes to us," he said, "does so for the wrong reasons." The same is generally true of people who become psychotherapists. It is sometimes possible to persuade people to be come psychotherapists who have not chosen the profession for their own personal reasons; but, for the most part, we have to put up with what we get; namely, ourselves.

Los mejores momentos de la vida son aquellos en los cuales no sabemos qué hacer, porque solamente entonces, mi niño, descubrimos nuestra fuerza interior, nuestra verdadera vocación.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary -- nature, study, and practice.

Ich bin ein fleißiger Mosaikarbeiter, kein Dichter.

I studied carpentry for three years and passed all my qualifications. If it wasn't for football then I would still be doing that. I honestly really enjoyed it.

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

I'd get another job before I would play music I don't enjoy. But then, I'm really not qualified to do anything else.

I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine not writing, because I've done it since I was five or six. Maybe I'd work in academia. That's always what the plan was.

He was a patient man, a kind man, a man who cared about animals and human beings, all qualities not to be devalued, but James Herriot was not a saint. I tried so hard to play against some of the scripts that implied that he was a saint, but I don't think I was always altogether successful.