Vocation Quotes

“To be saints is not a privilege for the few, but a vocation for everyone.”

“I'm not a preacher, and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career is a ministry.”

“To be a composer is a calling, not a profession.”

“To be a writer is to be a kind of priest.”

“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”

“To be a writer is to be a lonely person.”

“When you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't do it for the money.”

“Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.”

“For me, acting is not a career. It's a vocation. I'm not a careerist. I'm an actress.”

“I feel very good about my singing. I've been in a place of great passion and great need to sing.”

“As for the vocation of writer, it's not a matter of choosing. You can believe you've chosen it, but at a certain point the choice is choosing you.”

“To make a living as a clown is a bit of a strange calling.”

“If you have a talent, you have an obligation to use it.”

“To be a writer is to have a sense of purpose.”

“We are not called to be successful, but to be faithful.”

“Being an artist is not a profession, it's a condition.”

“Writing is not a profession but a vocation, an avocation. I don't write by choice, I write because I have to.”

“If you're a writer, you're a writer. You can't stop.”

“Everyone has a calling. Your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.”

“What you are looking for is not a job, but a calling.”