Quotes by John W. Gardner

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Politician · American · 1912–2002

American politician (1912–2002)

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“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities then every business office government agency golf club and university faculty woul...”
— John W. Gardner
work

“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”
— John W. Gardner
Government Responsible

“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
People Better You

“But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some measure of mutual trust simply cannot survive. Pluralism that reflects no commitments whatever to...”
— John W. Gardner
leadership pluralism society values

“Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.”
— John W. Gardner
art artist

“John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.”
— John W. Gardner
education

“History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.”
— John W. Gardner
history historians

“To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.”
— John W. Gardner
one day