Quotes About Vocation

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling.

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathematics. War is a part of our lives, a career, a respected vocation. Bright, alert young men and women move into it, putting their shoulders to the wheel as they did in the time of Nebuchadnezzar. It has always been so.

This man did not deal in fairy tales. You could see that as soon as you walked into his office. Schevitz was somebody who liked to be proved right, somebody whose wish to prevail was his vocation.

The best teachers seem to acknowledge the conflict between their vocations, reach some kind of internal compromise, and go on.

finding your vocation in life is discovering the place '...where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

making as cadence, pace, variety of tone, and especially gestures of the arms, hands, shoulders, and head. Young Frederick was enthralled, and though he could not yet know it, his life's vocation, his true

A true vocation calls us out beyond ourselves; breaks our heart in the process and then humbles, simplifies and enlightens us about the hidden, core nature of the work that enticed us in the first place.

Don't romanticise your 'vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

But like a lot of people whose vocation it is to change the world he proved to be, in person, outrageously petty.

Don't romanticize your vocation. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

When two people meant for each other refuse to accept their vocation, they sentence themselves to a life full of hatred and blame and everyone is to blame for their missed opportunity.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

It was just as well I found acting because I had no aptitude for anything else.

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative, may intervene. The embalmer of original enchantments, it is the only human faculty that can outwit the advance of chronological time. Art, the embalmer of memory, is the only human vocation in which the time regained by memory can be permanently fixed.