The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
Seamus Heaney

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
Frederick Pollock

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Jean Rostand

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery Brundage

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

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.
Marc Garneau

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens

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.
Edith Stein

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
Mary Gordon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Georges Simenon

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
Neil Simon