Life Quotes by John F. Kennedy

Change is the law of life.

— John F. Kennedy

Life isn't fair. In never was and never will be.

— John F. Kennedy

Race has no place in American life or law.

— John F. Kennedy

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

— John F. Kennedy

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

— John F. Kennedy

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

— John F. Kennedy

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because…

— John F. Kennedy

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less…

— John F. Kennedy

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its…

— John F. Kennedy

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as…

— John F. Kennedy

Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of…

— John F. Kennedy

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must…

— John F. Kennedy

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as…

— John F. Kennedy

I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men…

— John F. Kennedy

We must live our lives in such a way that our children, and their children after them, will form a natural and…

— John F. Kennedy

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the…

— John F. Kennedy

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.…

— John F. Kennedy

But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the…

— John F. Kennedy

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation…

— John F. Kennedy

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to…

— John F. Kennedy

Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or…

— John F. Kennedy

“Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or…

— John F. Kennedy

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts…

— John F. Kennedy

In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows…

— John F. Kennedy

And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now…

— John F. Kennedy

“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the…

— John F. Kennedy

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward…

— John F. Kennedy

If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send…

— John F. Kennedy

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

— John F. Kennedy

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

— John F. Kennedy

Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

— John F. Kennedy

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand…

— John F. Kennedy

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

— John F. Kennedy