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A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
John W. Gardner
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John W. Gardner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: October 8
Died: 2002
Died: February 16
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John William Gardner
John Gardner
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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
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Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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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.
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It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
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