John F. Kennedy Life Quotations

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

Race has no place in American life or law.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusettsthe common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrantwill not be and could not be forgotten in the Nations Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.

Change is the law of life.