Quotes About Calling

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life…. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

What is needed out there, and what is my unique strength, my gift?

Frankl says we detect rather than invent our missions in life. I like that choice of words. I think each of us has an internal monitor or sense, a conscience, that gives us an awareness of our own uniqueness and the singular contributions that we can make. In

life is a mission and not a career," and that we could find true happiness by serving others.

we detect rather than invent our missions in life.

Frankl says we detect rather than invent our missions in life. I like that choice of words. I think each of us has an internal monitor or sense, a conscience, that gives us an awareness of our own uniqueness and the singular contributions that we can make.

we detect rather than invent our missions in life. I

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman once said, "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.

In drawing a wall, he said, "the artist who must copy every small stone and each stroke of whitewash has missed his calling: he should have become a bricklayer.

The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.

Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you.

Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it

Passion is very important; if you don't love what you do then you're probably doing the wrong job.

Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.

I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

We call it your area of destiny. We urge people to build their careers at that intersection of what they're uniquely good at ... and what you love to do.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.