Meaning
Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer
to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build
into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and
loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of
your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the
things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to
sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can
put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a
life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular
balance of successes or failure is of less account.
John W. Gardner
Speech delivered to the Hawaii Executive Conference in Kona,
Hawaii, April 1993
Other thought-provoking quotes from John W. Gardner...
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free men can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free men can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
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