252 Quotes About Vocation

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.

The most important thing in life is to know the purpose of your calling, your vocation

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

The point of the calling was, quite simply, that it was appointed by God to serve neighbors. If along the way some self-fulfillment came as well, there was nothing wrong with that, but it was hardly the point of the calling.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.