Quotes by : John W. Gardner

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

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

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

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it....

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

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

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

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

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

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own....