Gail Godwin Quotes

I realised that acting is not my god.

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

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

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'