Quotes about Vocation
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
— Alice Walker
To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her is necessarily committed the making of the nation's citizens.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
— Mark Twain
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
— John Piper
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.
— Max Lucado
Find something you like to do, and do it so well that people pay you to do it.
— Max Lucado
a promotion is not a move up the ladder; it is a move toward your call. Don't let someone "promote" you out of your call. Look for ways to align your job with your skills. This
— Max Lucado
make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that" (Gal. 6: 4 MSG).
— Max Lucado
Seriously evaluating my gifts and talents—an important step when choosing a career.
— Ben Carson
In my view, the amateur does not love the game enough. If he did, he would not pursue it as a sideline, distinct from his "real" vocation.
— Steven Pressfield
You become an artist once you start saying that you are an artist.
— Steven Pressfield
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. If we were born to paint, it's our job to become a painter. If
— Steven Pressfield