Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.