Quotes About Vocation

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

Tu trabajo consiste en descubrir tu trabajo y luego entregarte a él en cuerpo y alma. —BUDA

A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

I always liked to arrange things. I guess it's my only real vocation. By putting things in order, I create and understand at the same time.

And since, through lack of vocation or from habit, [Julie] was prone to confuse pity with boredom, she felt herself practically a prisoner...

According to Article XIV of the Augustana, it matters greatly who exercises the preaching office, namely, whether the person in question is legitimately called (rite vocatus) according to correct ecclesiastical order. Luther also knew that the call (vocatio) causes the devil a great deal of woe.

Except that I have no marketable skills other than swinging around a sword and making up riddles, neither of which probably pay all that well.

We are all called to be saints, (although we are not all called to be canonized).

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in.

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are.

Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.