Quotes About Vocation

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Critics should find meaningful work.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

You have to have passion when you're finding a recipe for a career. If you love what you are doing, you'll never work a day in your life.

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.