John W. Gardner Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

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

  John W. Gardner

  Faithful, Problem, Being Faithful

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

• We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.

  John W. Gardner

  Attitude, Integrity, People

  "The Recovery of Confidence".

• Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

  John W. Gardner

  Nonprofits, Pluralism, Democratic

• The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Responsibility, Community

• The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight for their place in the sun, and critics of both liberal conservative persuasion.

  John W. Gardner

  Home, Fighting, Groups

• All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

  John W. Gardner

  Celebration, Behavior, Celebrate

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