All John W. Gardner Quotes
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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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.
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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.
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The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."
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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.
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
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All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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