Quotes about Vocation

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

Following Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world. To allow what God for some reason allows—and uses. And to suffer ever so slightly what God suffers eternally. Often, this has little to do with believing the right things about God—beyond the fact that God is love itself.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Marriage is a vocation. You are called to it. Accept marriage, then, as a God-given task. Throw yourself into it with joy. Do it heartily, with faith, prayer, and thanksgiving.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.

As an artist, we depend on our face as a source of living.

I love being Dr. Ruth, so I have never thought of retiring.

The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself."5

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.

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.