Quotes by John W. Gardner

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

True happiness involves the full use of ones power and talents.

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

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.

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

If you dont give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, hell make plenty when he gets to college.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

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