John F. Kennedy Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by John F. Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
I'm an idealist without illusions.
- John F. Kennedy
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- 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
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
And so, my fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy
Illusions Sayings
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Part Sayings
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Keep silence for the most part,
and speak only when you must,
and then briefly.
- Epictetus
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser,
and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
- John Lennon
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
Kindness Sayings
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Today, I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
I radiate my kindness into the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
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