Pastoral Resources

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.