Kennedy Quotes

Being the youngest President of the United States, John F. Kennedy brought forth new political ideals. His actions firmly established America's supremacy in world politics. His inaugural address is still fresh in public memory. These Kennedy quotes renew our faith in democracy.

• Character
  Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

• Ability
  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.

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

• Business
  The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth-persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

• Creativity
  The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

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

• Courage
  The stories of past courage can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

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

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

• Courage
  We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.