Top 475 Calling Quotes

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

I have to say, I feel a weird sort of calling in filmmaking that I didn’t feel with other things. I feel like there are things in life you want to do, and then things you are called to do, and hopefully you can allow yourself to want to do whatever you’re called to do.

I’ve known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, ‘Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?’ I would say, ‘Astrophysicist.’ And then they’d walk away real quickly.

My mom has been calling me Peep my whole life. That’s how I got the name.

I check Trump every time he says something crazy. I told him to stop calling Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas.’

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn’t earn public trust.

I spent one year being very poor at home with my piano, and nobody was calling me, but I had space to think about things on my own and find out exactly what I wanted to do.

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I’m not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.

I realised music was my calling, and I am one of those who’s strongly bound by an infectious enthusiasm and passion.

If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

I don’t lose any sleep over people calling me names.

It’s a well-known fact that the TV camera adds 10 pounds. I don’t want to say that I’ve been calling my Jenny Craig consultant a lot, but I’m pretty sure I’m the first spokesperson whom they’ve considered filing a restraining order against.

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play. Shaggy is flamboyant; he’s cocky. And I can’t live that twenty-four hours a day – hell, no.

My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don’t call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.

People have made comments, calling me names like ‘midnight’ or ‘mother of stars.’ At first I confronted the bullies, but eventually I learned to tune out the negativity and just love myself more.

Yes, Barack Obama had his clashes with the press. I witnessed those first-hand covering the second term of his administration. But we did not have Barack Obama on almost a weekly basis referring to the press as the enemy of the people and accusing reporters of treason and calling legitimate stories fake news.

If Bill O’Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that’s probably – that probably means you’re doing a good job.

I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

When your dad’s a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.

I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.

I can’t say that while I sat at my desk cold calling or trying to help people re-mortgage that playing for England was a real achievable goal.

I’ve known for a very long time that making music for the church has been my calling.

I’m not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.

Poetry for me is very easy. It’s like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it.

For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

In high school, I had a gold 1992 Ford Explorer. It was a gift. I used to have a terrible habit of locking the keys in the car when I used leave the car running to help it start on a cold morning. I think the local locksmith became used to me calling him.

We need to be adopted by God through Jesus – that was what happened to me, and that’s what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling.

Oh my gosh, I mean, I’ve had many experiences of men calling me psycho.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

I’m proud to join Cruelty Free International in calling on the United States to end cosmetics testing on animals.

I think just calling up a VC and saying ‘I want to pitch you’ is an enormous waste of time.

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I’d write ‘The Calling’ as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.

I think the whole movement of #MeToo is not just calling out the sexual harassers, which is really important, but also crying out that we want equal pay, equal representation, equal opportunities, and that we want to see more female directors and photographers.

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 mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time; nobody buys it anymore.

The new spirituality will bring about what I’m calling the ‘end of better.’ And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I’ve been writing.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Since I was younger, I’ve always had the same body. Older guys would always be like, ‘Oh you a stallion.’ I finally had to ask, like, is that a good thing? Everybody pretty much took it and ran with it, and then I put it as my main name on Twitter. Ever since then everybody’s just been calling me Stallion.

I never wanted to be a part of the industry, as I had no knowledge about it. I am one of those rare and really lucky people for whom the calling identified me and not the other way around.

When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.

There’s this misconception that I’ve been turning down roles. It’s just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn’t ringing.

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’ve been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.

I studied broadcast journalism at Pepperdine University. After a short career in television with MTV and later on at FX Network, I found my true calling in Eventbrite.

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.