50 John F. Kennedy Quotes That Will Inspire Your Life

1. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

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

3. “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”

4. “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

5. "The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."

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

7. "Lets talk to one another instead of about one another."

8. "Only an educated and informed people will be a free people."

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

10. "A child miseducated is a child lost."

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

12. "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

13. "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

14. "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

15. "Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'."

16. "The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."

17. "The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master."

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

19. "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

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

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

22. "In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power."

23. "Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults."

24. "This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor."

25. "Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future."

1. "Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes."

2. "We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves."

3. "Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'."

4. "We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future."

5. "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

6. "There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow."

7. "Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

8. "To those whom much is given, much is expected."

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

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

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

12. "One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."

13. "Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it."

14. "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

15. "Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

16. "If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help."

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

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

19. "Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success."

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

21. "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."

22. "We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

23. "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

24. "Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside"

25. "All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent."