Quotes About Vocation

If you need to be authentic to do your best work, you're not a professional, you're a fortunate amateur.

Truly, these are among the most exciting days to be called beyond the church's walls, because God is releasing disciples into every industry and occupation.

The public vocation of truth telling cannot be consistently practiced without public and private respect for, and defense of, intellectual integrity.

Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.

We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

Everyone is called, everyone is sent out… The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about.

Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs are men who have come alive.

the vocation to sanctity is not linked to a call to become a priest, monk, or nun but to sanctify themselves in the normal settings of daily life.

Considering myself called of my God to instruct the ignorant, comfort the sorrowful, confirm the weak, and rebuke the proud; by tongue and lively voice in these corrupt days rather than to compose books for the age to come, seeing that so much is written, and yet so little well observed, I decree to contain myself within the bounds of that vocation whereunto I found myself especially called.

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.