Quotes with vocation

  • Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
  • War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
  • If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anish Kapoor 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
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Mother Teresa Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Elvis Costello My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
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  • George F. Will She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Robert Schumann The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
    Robert Schumann
    German composer (1810 - 1856)
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  • Emma Goldman 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
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Jean Rostand The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Vaclav Havel There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
    Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 332
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Bayard Rustin War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Cate Blanchett When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Salvatore Satta His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
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