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Quotes About Vocation

The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.
~ Richard Bach
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
~ Rudyard Kipling
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
~ Steven Pressfield
It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
~ Moliere
Without work men are utterly undone
~ Nevil Shute
If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.
~ Os Guinness
A job is a job. And I like to work.
~ Brent Spiner
Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
~ Chin-Ning Chu
A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.
~ Doreen Virtue
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.
~ Daniel Handler
If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.
~ Al Gore
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.
~ Beryl Markham
Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
~ Cate Blanchett
Meaningful work is within your grasp.
~ Dan Miller
If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.
~ David Kim
I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."
~ Donald Miller
We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
~ Fran Lebowitz
My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.
~ Henry Latham Doherty
Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.
~ James Hillman
For years and years I have done the work I was born for.
~ James Larkin
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
~ James Russell Lowell