John F. Kennedy Life Quotations

Change is the law of life.

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.

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

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.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

Race has no place in American life or law.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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