The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Baldwin
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didnt, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. – Honore de Balzac
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. – Elvis Costello
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. – William Hazlitt
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. – Lyndon B. Johnson
Sometimes you have to do the work and hope the career materializes. – Michael Lipsey
Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off? – Joan Manley
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. – C. Wright Mills
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 Theresa
People dont choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. – John Dos Passos
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. – Molly Ringwald
If I had my career over again? Maybe Id say to myself, speed it up a little. – Jimmy Stewart
Dont worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you. – Source Unknown
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde
