Quotes and Sayings about Vocation
"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Colors, Existence)
"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Existence, Man, Vocation)
"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Language)
"The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate."
- Jeremy Brett
(Related: Heart, Fact, Man, Play)
"The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation."
- Avery Brundage
(Related: Education, Life, Goal, Amusement, Eyes, Recreation, Vocation)
"Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents."
- Conrad Burns
(Related: Education, Leadership, People, Difference, Gifts, Self, Students)
"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: War, Defense, Revenge)
"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."
- Elvis Costello
(Related: Life, Vocation)
"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
(Related: Charity, Excitement, Pleasure, Vocation)
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation."
- Larry Flynt
(Related: Politics, Vocation)
"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
(Related: Life, Opportunity, Fulfillment, Mission, Vocation)
"Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home."
- Michael Franti
(Related: Home, Music, Want)
"I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift."
- Mavis Gallant
(Related: Life, Father, Dream, Fear, Vocation, Writing)
"There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation."
- Marc Garneau
(Related: Difference, Research, 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."
- Emma Goldman
(Related: Life, Love, Rights, Vocation)
"Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed."
- Mary Gordon
(Related: Vocation, Waiting)
"We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum."
- Philip Greenspun
(Related: Science, Hope, Computer, Curriculum, Job, School)
"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."
- Seamus Heaney
(Related: Life, Poetry, Fact, Vocation)
"Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations."
- Cordell Hull
(Related: Peace, First, Nations, Security, United, Will)
"I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade."
- Anish Kapoor
(Related: Artist, Vocation)
"I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security."
- Garry Kasparov
(Related: Actions, Security)
"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
(Related: Society, People, Economy, Job, Spirit, Vocation)
"You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps."
- George Konrad
(Related: Courage, Right, Thinking, Tomorrow, Will)
"I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do."
- Diane Kruger
(Related: Day, Drama, First, School, Vocation)
"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."
- Mary MacLane
(Related: Desire, Intention, Public, Vocation, Will)
"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."
- Elsa Maxwell
(Related: Giving, Humanity)
"With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Education, Career, Public, School, Students, Training)
"All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long."
- Wilson Mizner
(Related: Anger, Scripture)
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
- Edward P. Morgan
(Related: Thought, Idea, Fear, Man, Mind, Privacy, Will)
"At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Education)
"I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another."
- Russell M. Nelson
(Related: Love, Care, Doubt, Vocation)
"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
(Related: Army, Building, Guitar, Vocation)
"People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: People, Mosque, Koran, Building, Right, Want)
"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Vocation)
"Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is."
- Giovanni Ribisi
(Related: Vocation)
"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
(Related: Christian, Vocation)
"It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
(Related: Vacation, Vocation)
"The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Power, Vocation)
"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart."
- George Sand
(Related: Heart, Artist, Light, Vocation)
"Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Health, Work, Education, Development, Abuse, Job, Mental health, Participation, Prison, Training, Treatment)
"One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time."
- Idries Shah
(Related: Time, People, Beliefs, Past)
"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Profession, Unhappiness, Vocation, Writing)
"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
(Related: Life, People, Comedy, Fact, Present, Schools, Vocation)
"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Love, Vocation)
"Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations."
- Anna Garlin Spencer
(Related: Men, Women, Work, Education, Genius, Opportunity, Choice, Class, First, Generations, Woman)
"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
(Related: Time, Feet, Man, May, Spirit, Vocation, Will)
"Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone."
- Edith Stein
(Related: God, Order, Vocation)
"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."
- Mother Teresa
(Related: Love, Work, Mistake, People, Vocation)
"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."
- John Tillotson
(Related: Argument, Mind, Reason)
"I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen."
- Karl Urban
(Related: Work, End, Reality, Television, Theatre, Vocation)