Time Quotes by John F. Kennedy

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

— John F. Kennedy

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

— John F. Kennedy

I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days…

— John F. Kennedy

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

— John F. Kennedy

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the…

— 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

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the…

— John F. Kennedy

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for…

— John F. Kennedy

Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades…

— John F. Kennedy

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the…

— John F. Kennedy

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats,…

— John F. Kennedy

A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal…

— John F. Kennedy

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to…

— 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

What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and…

— John F. Kennedy

Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the…

— 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

Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the…

— John F. Kennedy

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing…

— John F. Kennedy

“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light a candle that can guide us through the darkness to a…

— John F. Kennedy

It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America…

— John F. Kennedy

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to…

— John F. Kennedy

I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the…

— John F. Kennedy

As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we…

— John F. Kennedy

“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart…

— John F. Kennedy

“We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.”

— John F. Kennedy

“We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain future now.”

— John F. Kennedy

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new…

— John F. Kennedy