Quotes About Calling

She paused for a moment. "Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy—angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

A writer, or any artist, can't expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it's your calling.

People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.

You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.

I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.

Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour.

When we reduce the notion of "calling" to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

A man's life is his work; his work is his life.

God has work for you to do.

You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work.

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.

In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.

If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.