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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#doing #excellence #i #i am #kind

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#belief #community #corrupt #cynical #existence

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#every #excellence #free #free man #goal

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#disguised #faced #great #insoluble #insoluble problems

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

— John W. Gardner

#failure #learning #less #people #reasons

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#ferocity #laws #natural #species

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

#better #effective #helping #more #people

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#being #feel #human #human being #i

Great artists suffer for the people. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#for the people #great #people #suffer

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#faithful #find #our #problem #profess