John W. Gardner Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: 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.

  John W. Gardner

  Freedom, Commitment, Greatness

• Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

  John W. Gardner

  Greatness, Discipline, People

  "Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?".

• Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

  John W. Gardner

  Greatness, People, Perfection

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.103, Pickle Partners Publishing

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