Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
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.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
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.
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.
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.
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 knew, despite playing in the NBA, that I would have to prepare for another career or vocation for when my playing days were over, in order to maintain relevancy. I didn't want to become known for what I used to do.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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.
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves
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 always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.
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.
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
Life is so very short. Do now what you yearn to do in your life. You do not have to 'quit your day job' in order to do this. You may do so if you choose to, but you do not have to. Many people advance a vocation while holding down their 'regular job.' You can, too. Then ease into your vocation and turn it into your 'regular job.' But you must give energy to your vocation starting today. I mean, today.
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.
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.
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