#calling

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#beacon #been #calling #democracies #eastern

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#necessity #passion #vocation #obedience

Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young. ↗

— Sergei Yesenin

#life-changing #russian-poetry #sorrow #change

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#careers #jobs #vocation #change

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#cromwell #military #men

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#calling #council #every #every man #grand

I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#become #between #black #blue #calling

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#because #britain #calling #competition #complete

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair! ↗

— Katie Couric

#announce #blow #calling #could #going

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way. ↗

— Peter Davison

#calling #certain #dangerous #free #freedom