Quotes About Vocation

We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opportunities that exist. That was the big, overarching message of 'Dirty Jobs.'

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.

Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

He hoped to find some new method of making a living and aspired to become a professional breeder of ferrets.

The art of poetry belongs to life; one lives for it just as other people live for their essential vocations of whatever kind they may be. It is one's earthly home, and the other poets, dead or living, when masters of the art, are one's housemates.

I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to actually make a living with something I love doing.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

Find something you like to do, and do it so well that people pay you to do it.

a promotion is not a move up the ladder; it is a move toward your call. Don't let someone "promote" you out of your call. Look for ways to align your job with your skills. This

One stay-at-home mom keeps this sign over her kitchen sink: "Divine tasks performed here, daily." An executive hung this plaque in her office: "My desk is my altar." Both are correct. With God, our work matters as much as our worship. Indeed, work can be worship.

It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

The vocation of putting people straight, of tearing off their masks, of forcing them to face the repressed truth, is a highly dangerous and destructive calling

I just want them to discover something they can do that makes them contented and feeling as if they are doing something worth doing.

seriously evaluating my gifts and talents—an important step when choosing a career.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things — the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold — were false to you.

An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.

A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.