Quotes by : John W. Gardner

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy....

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

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

But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some measure....

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities....

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive....

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the....

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty....

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the....

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders....