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John W Gardner Quotes
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. - John W Gardner Quotes
Americas greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. - John W Gardner Quotes
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - John W Gardner Quotes
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. - John W Gardner Quotes
History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W Gardner Quotes
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. - John W Gardner Quotes
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. - John W Gardner Quotes
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. - John W Gardner Quotes
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. - John W Gardner Quotes
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John W Gardner Quotes
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. - John W Gardner Quotes
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. - John W Gardner Quotes
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. - John W Gardner Quotes
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. - John W Gardner Quotes
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess. - John W Gardner Quotes
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the worlds ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. - John W Gardner Quotes
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. - John W Gardner Quotes
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. - John W Gardner Quotes
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. - John W Gardner Quotes
The cynic says, One man cant do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything. - John W Gardner Quotes
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. - John W Gardner Quotes
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. - John W Gardner Quotes
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. - John W Gardner Quotes
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. - John W Gardner Quotes
True happiness involves the full use of ones power and talents. - John W Gardner Quotes
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - John W Gardner Quotes
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - John W Gardner Quotes
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: Only stand out of my light. Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. - John W Gardner Quotes
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W Gardner Quotes
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. - John W Gardner Quotes
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