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My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do. -- Nick Cannon
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. -- Honore de Balzac
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. -- Mother Teresa
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good. -- Pope Francis
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. -- Emma Goldman
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. -- Viktor E. Frankl
I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time. -- Charles Stanley
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
My first vocation was dance. -- Victoria Abril
My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering -- Mare Winningham
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. -- Mark Twain
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. -- Elvis Costello
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others. -- Mother Teresa
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation. -- Aristotle
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. -- Jean Rostand
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. -- Honore de Balzac
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. -- Molly Ringwald
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. -- Thomas Merton
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Jimmy Page
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. -- Sam Keen
Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there. -- Richard M. Nixon
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. -- Albert Camus
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation. It is not what we do but how much love we put into it. -- Mother Teresa
Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit. -- Catherine McAuley
Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day. -- Nicholas Lore
Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet. -- Frederick Buechner
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go. -- Benjamin Moser
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation. -- Larry Flynt
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. -- George Sand
When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it. -- Cate Blanchett
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world. -- Nita Ambani
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is. -- Giovanni Ribisi
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. -- Scott Weiss
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. -- Anish Kapoor
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. -- Charles Dickens
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. -- Rick Warren
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. -- Seamus Heaney
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. -- Edith Stein
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted. -- Wendell Berry
When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line. -- Kris Carr
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. -- P. T. Barnum
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. -- Avery Brundage
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed. -- Bayard Rustin
I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream. -- Hugo Chavez
Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible. -- Donald Wuerl
Lying is a thriving vocation. -- Susanna Centlivre
Make your vacation your vocation. -- Mark Twain
My vocation to preach on paper. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
A vocation is the backbone of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed. -- Mary Gordon
To forgive is the vocation of all Christians. -- Matthew C. Harrison
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion. -- Saint Francis de Sales
See your vocation as a God-given path to holiness. -- Dom Hubert Van Zeller
To be active is the primary vocation of man. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation. -- Andie MacDowell
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation. -- Al Yankovic
The ambitious man has never found his true vocation... -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. -- Georges Simenon
Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you. -- Gail Godwin
The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man. -- Cassius Jackson Keyser
I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation. -- Chynna Phillips
I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer. -- Paulo Coelho
Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence -- Honore de Balzac
Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. -- Susan Sontag
I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love. -- Emmanuelle Beart
Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success. -- Mark Twain
My vocation is to make my life an act of worship -- Ashley Judd
Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation. -- William Shakespeare
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. -- Henri Nouwen
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. -- William Osler
The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability. -- August Bournonville
God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is. -- Martin Luther
My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love. -- Therese of Lisieux
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. -- Leo Tolstoy
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. -- Katharine Whitehorn
A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. -- George D. Prentice
Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. -- Christina Baker Kline
Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation. -- Henry James
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation. -- Elliott Erwitt
Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself -- Hermann Hesse
Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life. -- Tony Dungy
Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent. -- Joe Sacco
Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need. -- Frederick Buechner
The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God. -- Saint Basil
I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation. -- William Everson
It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition. -- Elton Trueblood
In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation. -- Edith Wharton
Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy. -- Frederick Buechner
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. -- Julia Glass
No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry -- Joel Beeke
To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone. -- Pope Francis
Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation. -- Charles Spurgeon
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling. -- Alden Ehrenreich
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation. -- Honore de Balzac
Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. -- Mother Teresa
Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation -- Pope Francis
Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it. -- Gustave Flaubert
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. -- Kay Boyle
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation. -- Lawrence Reed
Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. -- Honore de Balzac
The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. -- Pope John Paul II
I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one. -- Henrietta Rose-Innes
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is -- Giovanni Ribisi
Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation. -- David Kim
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes. -- Edward Abbey
Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage. -- Gary Chapman
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. -- Luc de Clapiers
To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks. -- Mason Cooley
Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe. -- Dillon Burroughs
When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation. -- John Tesh
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. -- George Santayana
I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling. -- Cornel West

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