Vocation Quotes

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

My first vocation was dance.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.