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Education
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Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/jfk/publicpapers/1961/jfk46_61.html
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Effort
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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Exercise
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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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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.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Expectation
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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Faith
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I know there is a God--and I see a storm coming; if He has a place for me, I believe that I am ready.
(Words found written on a slip of paper by Evelyn Lincoln, Kennedy's secretary, following a disappointing meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev in Vienn in June 1961)
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Farming
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The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Fate & Destiny
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Fear
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Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Forgiveness
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Freedom
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The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Government
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The basis of effective government if public confidence.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Gratitude
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Happiness
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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Help
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To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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History
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Humanity
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I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Ideas
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Address Greenville N.C., February 8, 1963
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Books by and about John Fitzgerald Kennedy