Quotes of Vocation - somelinesforyou

“ Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. ”

- Jane Austen

“ The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. ”

- Socrates

“ Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. ”

- Harold Ross

“ The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. ”

- James Baldwin

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. ”

- John Erksine

“ My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. ”

- Elvis Costello

“ 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. ”

- Harold Ross

“ When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking. ”

- George Horace Lorimer

“ Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it. ”

- Ben Hecht

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

- Honore de Balzac

“ Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness. ”

- Georges Simenon

“ The game has basically not changed since I ended my career. ”

- Kareem Abdul Jabbar

“ This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. ”

- Ugo Betti

“ When I left the band, what the band did is really their own business. And their career - they got on with it, and I got on with my career. ”

- Bruce Dickinson

“ A member of the most ancient profession in the world. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. ”

- Clara Barton

“ In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree. ”

- John Gay

“ Christmas is over and Business is Business. ”

- Franklin P. Adams

“ It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ He's still my best friend. It's just business. ”

- Regis Philbin

“ They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area. ”

- Jessica Lynch

“ Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that. ”

- Paul Taylor

“ This business will never hold water. ”

- Colley Cibber

“ But unlike other careers where you have to be away all the time, we're with our children. ”

- Sarah Brown
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