Quotes of: Vocational Keyword

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

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Honore de Balzac

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

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.

Julia Glass

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 ...

Charles Stanley

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

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

F. Sionil Jose

Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

Quincy Jones

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

Anne Rice

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

Tabare Vazquez

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

Roger Bannister

Often we want to be somewhere other than where we are, to even to be someone other than who we are. We tend to compare ourselves constantly with others and wonder why we are not as rich, as intelligent, as simple, as generous, or as saintly as they a...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

In any love-story there are usually two stages or phases. There is the initial stage, where love is expressed by the giving of gifts, especially the gift of self. Then there comes a time when it is no longer enough to give gifts to the beloved, but o...

Virginity: A Positive Approach to Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven

I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religious order. We have the vocation of keeping alive Mr. Melcher's excitement in leading young people into an expanding imagination. Because of the very na...

Madeleine L'Engle

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.

Anarchism and Other Essays

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

The Word and the Bomb

Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.

Thirst No More: A One-Year Devotional Journey

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight.

Robert Frost

Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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