Vocation Quotes - Page 13

• My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Lasts, Found

  Therese of Lisieux (2016). “St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations”, p.19, ICS Publications

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• I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.

  Paul Gauguin

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should be neither homilies nor apologetics: the author's faith, and the grace he has received, will become apparent in his work even if it does not have Catholic characters or a Catholic theme.

  Piers Paul Read

  Writing, Character, Catholic

  Ignatius Press Interview, www.ignatius.com.

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• Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.

  Gioconda Belli

  Dream, Passion, Thinking

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• Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the great potent energies of life to green your world, to create planets, suns, stars, stones, waves, oceans, to create new forms of life and expression - whether a friendship, a feeling or a new form of vocation.

  Rumi

  Positive, Stars, Ocean

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• I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Believe, Engineering

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• 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.

  Mary MacLane

  Desire, Goes On, Lectures

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• It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Jobs, Real, Makers

  Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.98, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a great gift. But you also know this, for your work, for your passion, every day is a rededication. Painters, dancers, actors, writers, filmmakers. It's the same for all of you, all of us. Every step is a first step. Every brush stroke is a test. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. So, let the learning continue.

  Martin Scorsese

  Passion, School, Blow

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• My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Believe, Struggle

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.14, Routledge

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

  John B

  Learning, Science, Men

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• A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Men, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses and missionaries of the joy of the Gospel, in Asia and in the whole world.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Joy, World

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• So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world; and do what? To set people's hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did. He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with His love.

  Vincent de Paul

  Heart, Son, Fire

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• Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Frustration, Careers

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.87, Penguin

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• I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Romance, Calling, Way

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 27, 2016.

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• If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Desire, Want

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Giving Up, Real

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Jessye Norman

  Ambition, Needs, Talent

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• If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Management, Individual

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• Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Careers, Vanity

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Personality, Individuality

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• Lying is a thriving Vocation.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Lying

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: The life of the author. Perjur'd husband. Beaux's duel. Gamester. Basset table. Love at a venture. Stolen heiress”, p.159

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• If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation of the reader for acts of gallantry and devotion in my country's cause, at least I may claim the merit of zealous and persevering continuance in my vocation. We are all of us variously gifted from Above, and he who is content to walk, instead of to run, on his allotted path through life, although he may not so rapidly attain the goal, has the advantage of not being out of breath upon his arrival.

  Frederick Marryat

  Running, Country, Book

  Frederick Marryat (1870). “Peter Simple”, p.1

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