Vocation Quotes - Page 14

• The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Men, Excellence, Pursuit

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• Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.

  Timothy M. Dolan

  Real, Long, Giving

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• Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Chance, Habit

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.65, Discovery House

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• Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.

  Robert Lowell

  Writing, Mean, Purpose

  Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

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• On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Exercise, Reality, Hands

  "Wolfgang Tillmans: the lightness of being". Interview with Liz Jobey, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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• A vocation is the backbone of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Backbone, Life And Living

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• Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Journey, Goal

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• Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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• A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessing, Doubt, Care

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• To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

  Mason Cooley

  Practice, Broken, Promise

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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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• I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.

  Corra May Harris

  Happiness, Thinking, Practice

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• Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sin, Labor

  Ray Leslee, William Shakespeare, Kenneth Welsh (1998). “Standup Shakespeare”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative control. But I loved the craft and my father wanted me to get a college degree. Seemed natural to study what I loved and Marymount Manhattan has a wonderful theatre program, I highly recommend it! A lot of what I learned there I apply to my comicbook writing and pacing.

  Holly Golightly

  Father, Writing, College

  Source: hoopercomicart.blogspot.com

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• I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

  Cate Marvin

  University Professors, Careers, Pay

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I have called you by name, you are mine... you are precious in my sight.

  Isaiah

  Sight, Names, Mental Health

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• Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.

  Gary Chapman

  People, Preparation, More Time

  Gary Chapman (2010). “Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married”, p.10, Moody Publishers

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• Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too! Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that? Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life! Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just because you can't meet your goals. Kyo: THAT CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF YOURS REALLY PISSES ME OFF! Yuki: And that revolting thought process of yours pisses me off.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Attitude, Tired, Goal

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• She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wall, Fate

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• A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

  George D. Prentice

  Funny, Dental Work, Looks

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• Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are part of a community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Thinking, Self, Ecosystems

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• I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.

  Tony Kushner

  Art, Thinking, Income

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