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Self Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and…
- Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds…
- The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
- We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs…
- Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they…
- I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our…
- Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.
- I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing…
- First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think…
- We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster