Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success."
Vocation quotes
Vocation
58 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion."
George Sand
Novelist, Memoirist
"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain."
Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others."
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"The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude."
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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."
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"I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation."
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"The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man."
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"The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people."
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"I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer."
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"A vocation is the backbone of life."
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"To be active is the primary vocation of man."
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"In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation."
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"Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation."
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"Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe."
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"Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call."
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"They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations."
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"Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people."
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"Make your vacation your vocation."
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"God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is."
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