Quotes by John F. Kennedy

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

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

— John F. Kennedy

Hope

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

— John F. Kennedy

Education

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

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.

— John F. Kennedy

Success

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

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

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

— John F. Kennedy

Success

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

— John F. Kennedy

Life

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

— John F. Kennedy

Success

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

— John F. Kennedy

Freedom

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

— John F. Kennedy

Hope

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

— John F. Kennedy

Freedom

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

— John F. Kennedy

Success

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

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

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

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.

— John F. Kennedy

Freedom

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

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

— John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

— John F. Kennedy

Courage