John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner
John William Gardner,was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfareunder President Lyndon Johnson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth8 October 1912
CountryUnited States of America
age hallmark institutions
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
failure pay heavy
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
freedom commitment greatness
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
leadership hope alive
A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
greatness people discipline
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
government two presidential
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
education teaching flower
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
children home apathy
At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.
discovery self life-is
Life is an endless process of self-discovery.
business men cynic
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."
failure reading learning
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
relationship people society
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
respect army people
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
life wisdom travel
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.