Vocation Quotes

• I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Beautiful, Girl

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• Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Business, Work

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• 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

  Life, Rights, Justice

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• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Being Yourself, Work, Love Yourself

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

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Jesus, Work

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• A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Wisdom, Men

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• The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Success, Travel

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• 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

  Running, Prayer, Men

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• 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

  Life, Happiness, Summer

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• 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.

  Jimmy Page

  Army, Thinking, Guitar

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• The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

  Frederick Buechner

  Healing, Godly, Generosity

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• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• 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

  Freedom, Men, One Direction

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

  Frederick Buechner

  Joy, Needs, World

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• Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Writing, Color, Political

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• 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

  Charles Dickens

  Respect, Men, Thinking

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• 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

  Dedication, Noble, Common

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• It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Work, Men

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• 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

  Tides, Middle, Streams

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• When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

  Molly Ringwald

  Growing Up, Kids, Black

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• People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

  William Hazlitt

  People, Genius, Profession

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• Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

  Nicholas Lore

  Travel, Vacation

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• The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, People, Every Man

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