Vocation

(263 votes)   Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(221 votes)   Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(207 votes)   It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(153 votes)   The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(149 votes)   The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(138 votes)   Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

Richard M. Nixon
1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA

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(133 votes)   To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA

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(118 votes)   Don't worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

Source Unknown

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(114 votes)   My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering

Mare Winningham
1959-, American Actress

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(102 votes)   When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

Molly Ringwald
1968-, American Actress

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