Quotes About Vocation

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.

Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.

The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.

When I joined the SEALs, no one knew what a SEAL was. What intrigued me was the level of commitment, the love of country and desire to be the best in the world at your vocation. Watching American exceptionalism in action.

I remember, when I was young, to have a literary or artistic vocation was really dramatic because you were so isolated from the common world. You felt that you were marginal, and if you dared to try to organise your life around your vocation, you knew you'd be completely segregated.

Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.

What I've learnt is that being a midwife is not a job about cute babies. And as a maternity care assistant there's a lot of cleaning involved. It's a vocation.

I saw my father writing songs and he would include me in the process when I was little so that kind of sparked my interest for the vocation.

I was a stay-at-home mom, with an important job to raise the kids. I filled it into the occupation slot on innumerable immigration cards, looking at the officer with defiant pride. What was I then, now that actively raising my children was no longer my vocation?

As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

People shouldn't get into show business because they want to become stars or become rich; they should get into it because they can't help but put on a show.

Baseball is just my job.

I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'

Being funny was something I was doing before I understood what that even was. Now I'm making a career out of it.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often, if not always, expect that a new discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he is fitted for. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself.

When we talk about chefs, we often talk about their love of food or their passion for it, but cooking is also about making a living; it's a job.