Pastoral Resources

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.