Author: 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.

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

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.

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.

- John W. Gardner

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

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

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

- 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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

- 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

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

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