Do not pray for easy lives.
by John F. Kennedy
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
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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
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- 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
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- 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
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- 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
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- 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
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
Not Sayings
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Do not let your fire go out.
- Ayn Rand
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
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