33 Quotations by John W. Gardner
- 1. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
- 2. All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.
- 3. America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Fr ...
- 4. Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
- 5. For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
- 6. History never looks like history when you are living through it.
- 7. I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced i ...
- 8. If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become ...
- 9. It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and di ...
- 10. Leaders can express the values that hold the society together. Most important, they can conceive and ...
- 11. Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above th ...
- 12. One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for th ...
- 13. One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk fai ...
- 14. Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's i ...
- 15. Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives ...
- 16. Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives ...
- 17. Societies are renewed... by people who believe in something, care about something, stand for somethi ...
- 18. Societies are renewed... by people who believe in something, care about something, stand for somethi ...
- 19. Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
- 20. The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."
John W. Gardner Quotes by Power Quotations
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