Honore de Balzac Quotes

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.

If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

Acting is my job.

Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

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

I live for the text. It's my job.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

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

It's all in the day's work [C'est le métier].

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

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

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.