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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. (Quote by - Logan P. Smith)

My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering. (Quote by - Mare Winningham)

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone. (Quote by - Edith Stein)

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. (Quote by - Russell M. Nelson)

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. (Quote by - Molly Ringwald)

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. (Quote by - Mavis Gallant)

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. (Quote by - Anne Rice)

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. (Quote by - Jimmy Page)

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. (Quote by - Viktor E. Frankl)

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. (Quote by - George Simenon)

There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation. (Quote by - Marc Garneau)

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. (Quote by - Mary MacLane)

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. (Quote by - George Sand)

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. (Quote by - James Baldwin)

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do. (Quote by - Diane Kruger)

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