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Wise Quotes about Vocation

May you find great value in these Vocation quotes and sayings.

It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Related topics: Motivational

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain

Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa

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


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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

 

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide

I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung

He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt


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