Pastoral Resources

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.