Vocation Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Jobs, Mean, Order

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• 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.

  Len Elmore

  Order, Nba, Careers

  Source: aalbc.com

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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.

  Jimmy Page

  Army, Guitar, Building Up

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• My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering

  Mare Winningham

  Jobs, Mothering, Suitable

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• My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

  Elvis Costello

  Music, Reality, Life Is

  "New Music Express" interview with Nick Kent, 1978.

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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

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.346

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• 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.

  Neil Simon

  Graduation, School, People

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• What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

  Paulo Freire

  Life, Destiny, What If

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• The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

  James A. Baldwin

  Knowledge, Science, Government

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Gay Marriage, Human Rights

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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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

  Charles F. Stanley “How to Listen to God”, Harper Collins

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• Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gains, Disability, Turns

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• I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be too.

  Mark Ryden

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

  "Art Space Talk: Mark Ryden". Interview with Brian Sherwin, myartspace-blog.blogspot.ru. December 4, 2006.

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• Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

  Winston Churchill

  Holiday, Long, Ordinary

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• 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

  1944 Crazy Like a Fox,'Captain Future, BlockThat Kick'.

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

  John B. Watson

  Men, Artist, Race

  Source: jaosnuvanitte.wordpress.com

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• In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

  Henri Nouwen

  Bridges, Hatred, Division

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• The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Jewels, Forget

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• Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Devotion, United

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• Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Work, Destiny, Men

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• We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only to hear the call God makes to us to work with him. Quite often it is not a matter of doing something different, but doing it differently.

  Jean Danielou

  Reality, Different, Matter

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• Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

  Mark Twain

  Vacation, Secret, Secret To Success

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• There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Faith, Teacher, Jobs

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• Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Art, Thoughtful

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• A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

  Timothy Keller

  Crush, Jobs, Mean

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.2, Penguin

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