Michael Portillo Quotes

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.

The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

I think it would be much better for the country and for Clinton personally to resign. I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.

I took up acting upon the insistence of my filmmaker father, Kasthuri Raja. But I am glad for it: sometimes one identifies one's calling; sometimes it singles one out.

Destiny has put me in the profession that has kept me happy, and where I was supposed to be.

I'm not ready to decide if modeling is what I want to do with my life.

I realised that acting is not my god.

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

God made me to be a sports player. He didn't make me to be a professor or any of that other crap.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.