John W. Gardner Quotes

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great … is…the higher achievement.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

I don't try to be average. That's boring. That's not what life's about. I try to be great in everything I do.

I've got a chance to be really special.

Get a look at greatness!

I want to be great, something special.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

If you have won a national award, it means you have done something great.

I don't want to just be known as good. I want to be special.

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Everybody wants to be great at something.

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.