Author: John W. Gardner

Quotes

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

- John W. Gardner

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

- John W. Gardner

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

- John W. Gardner

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

- John W. Gardner

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

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

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

- John W. Gardner

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.

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

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

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

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

- John W. Gardner

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