Vocation Quotes

“A man's happiness is to do a man's true work.”

“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.”

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

“To us, the scientist who is a man of a single piece is not the one who has a job, but the one who has a calling.”

“Every woman who is not called to the special vocation of motherhood is called to a spiritual motherhood.”

“I have to write because I have to write.”

“I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.”

“For me, music is not a profession but a mission.”

“If you're going to write, you're going to write, and you don't need a guarantee of a lot of money.”

“I belong to the scarce group of people who have been able to earn a living out of their true vocation.”

“When one is a writer, one is a writer. It is an identity. A calling.”