118 Quotes by John W. Gardner

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The judges did a pretty good job of finding the weak points of both sides' arguments. I was a little surprised at how tough the panel was on the government.

The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''

True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world’s ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, “You can’t keep a good man down.” Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.”

Creativity requires the freedom to consider ‘unthinkable’ alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.