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Vocation Quotes

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You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
Dorothy Day

Authors on Vocation Quotes: Mark Twain Daniel Day-Lewis Martin Scorsese Nick Cannon Victoria Abril William Hazlitt Paulo Coelho Jean Rostand Hannah More Chynna Phillips Henry David Thoreau Susan Sontag Benjamin Moser Matthew Zapruder Leo Tolstoy Ralph Waldo Emerson William Osler Pope Francis Joe Sacco Harriet Beecher Stowe Brassai Kevin Cramer Susanna Centlivre Dillon Burroughs Mother Teresa Henri Nouwen Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Shakespeare Emmanuelle Beart Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Francis Bacon Anish Kapoor Henry Theodore Tuckerman
2.
Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.
Mark Twain

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The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.
Saint Basil

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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
Therese of Lisieux

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Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
Saint Francis de Sales

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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
Al Yankovic

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
George Sand

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

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To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.
Pope Francis

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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

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It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.
Brassai

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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt

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Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
Mother Teresa

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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

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One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.
Henry David Thoreau

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Jean Rostand

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Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.
Gail Godwin

19.
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry Flynt

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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
Leo Tolstoy

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I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.
Martin Scorsese

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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
William Osler

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Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.
Richard M. Nixon

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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
Daniel Day-Lewis

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The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.
Susan Sontag

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My vocation to preach on paper.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.
Emmanuelle Beart

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My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering
Mare Winningham

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To be active is the primary vocation of man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A vocation is the backbone of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

31.
Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.
Nicholas Lore

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My first vocation was dance.
Victoria Abril

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My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
Nick Cannon

34.
I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.
Paulo Coelho

35.
I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.
Chynna Phillips

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Lying is a thriving Vocation.
Susanna Centlivre

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I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.
Elliott Erwitt

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Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.
Richard Livingstone

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In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.
Edith Wharton

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My vocation is to make my life an act of worship
Ashley Judd

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

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Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
Hannah More

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Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
Benjamin Moser

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Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.
Kevin Cramer

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

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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
Henri Nouwen

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It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be something vaguely mystifying and even hilarious to people about being a poet, especially in these times. Why would anyone choose to do something so...useless?
Matthew Zapruder

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon