JFK Famous Quotes

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The time for healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.

JFK Famous Quotes part 2

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all live in fear. Fear of what – of ourselves, of the future, of isolation. And fear cripples and binds and distorts.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

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

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

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

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The greatest enemy of truth is not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

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.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

So, let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.