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“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Inspirational #Success #Softball
“True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Inspirational #Happiness #Inner Peace
“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

#Respect #Army #People
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Life #Wisdom #Art
“Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Relationship #People #Society
“The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."”
-- John W. Gardner

#Business #Men #Cynic
“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Reading #Failure #Learning
“We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Pay #Fear Of Failure #Heavy
“A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Leadership #Hope #Alive
“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Education #Goal #Individual
“All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Law #Natural #Species
“The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Age #Hallmark #Institutions
“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

#Two #Government #Political
“One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Character #Responsibility #Community
“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

#Education #Teaching #School
“Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Creativity #Practice #Doubt
“When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Keys #Two #Judgement
“We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Powerful #Failure #Personality
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
-- John W. Gardner

#History #Looks
“The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Self #Stranger #Individual
“Life is an endless process of self-discovery.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Discovery #Self #Life Is
“To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Karma #Men #Reckoning
“All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Discipline #Excellence #Purpose
“The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Creative #Gaps #Individual
“Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Running #Being Yourself #Clever
“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Politics #Poverty #Talent
“Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Faithful #Problem #Being Faithful
“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Teamwork #Government #Hardship
“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Stars #Perfection #Excellence
“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.”
-- John W. Gardner

#Ignorance #Simple #Two

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