John W. Gardner Quotes About Excellence
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We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.
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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
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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.
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Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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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.
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
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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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