Vocation Quotes

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

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

My object is living is to unite
My avocation with my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness—whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or songs.

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One should not search for an abstract meaning of life.  Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.  Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated.  Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

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Each man has his own vocation.  The talent is the call.  There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

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Vocation is the spine of life.