Authors:

Vocation Quotes - Page 2

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 197

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.99, Macmillan

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

Paulo Coelho (2011). “Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.

FaceBook post by Nick Cannon from Apr 20, 2014

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

My vocation to preach on paper.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (2017). “Uncle Tom's Cabin (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.436, W. W. Norton & Company

Lying is a thriving Vocation.

Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: The life of the author. Perjur'd husband. Beaux's duel. Gamester. Basset table. Love at a venture. Stolen heiress”, p.159

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

My vocation is to make my life an act of worship

Ashley Judd, Maryanne Vollers (2011). “All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir”, p.50, Ballantine Books

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

Ray Leslee, William Shakespeare, Kenneth Welsh (1998). “Standup Shakespeare”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community”, Edicoes Loyola

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.162