Top 500 John F. Kennedy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”

— John F. Kennedy

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2. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

— John F. Kennedy

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3. “If not us, who? If not now, when?”

— John F. Kennedy

4. “The rising tide lifts all the boats.”

— John F. Kennedy

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5. “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”

— John F. Kennedy

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6. “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Education Quotes, Future Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Uplifting Quotes

7. “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

8. “To those whom much is given, much is expected.”

— John F. Kennedy

9. “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”

— John F. Kennedy

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10. “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

— John F. Kennedy

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11. “Change is the law of life.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Progress Quotes, Moving Quotes

12. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Leadership Quotes, Learning Quotes, Short Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Positive Work Quotes

13. “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Peace Quotes, Freedom Quotes

14. “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Commitment Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Government Quotes

15. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Time Quotes, Change Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Future Quotes, Progress Quotes

16. “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Goal Setting Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

17. “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Preparation Quotes

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

— John F. Kennedy

19. “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”

— John F. Kennedy

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20. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Freedom Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

21. “Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”

— John F. Kennedy

22. “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

Featured in: Integrity Quotes, Values Quotes, Friday Inspirational Quotes, Gratitude Quotes

23. “Civility is not a sign of weakness.”

— John F. Kennedy

24. “When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

— John F. Kennedy

25. “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Wellness Quotes, Fitness Quotes

26. “There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.”

— John F. Kennedy

27. “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Accountability Quotes, Future Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Past Quotes

28. “Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.”

— John F. Kennedy

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29. “I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.”

— John F. Kennedy

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30. “Life isn’t fair. It never was and never will be.”

— John F. Kennedy

31. “And with privilege goes responsibility.”

— John F. Kennedy

32. “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Fear Quotes, Government Quotes

33. “All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Helping Quotes

34. “Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Exercise Quotes

35. “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”

— John F. Kennedy

36. “A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Real Quotes, Sleep Quotes

37. “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Quotes About the Sea, Quotes About Ocean

38. “No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.”

— John F. Kennedy

39. “Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes – one for peace and one for science.”

— John F. Kennedy

40. “Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.”

— John F. Kennedy

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41. “Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”

— John F. Kennedy

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42. “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Helping Others Quotes

43. “We celebrate the past to awaken the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Future Quotes, Healing Quotes

45. “Most cities are nouns. New York’s a verb.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Quotes About New York

46. “I know there is a God – I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it – if he has a place then I am ready – we see the hand.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Patriotic Quotes

47. “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Education Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Truth Quotes, Teaching Quotes

48. “The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.”

— John F. Kennedy

49. “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”

— John F. Kennedy

Featured in: Empathy Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Earth Day Quotes

50. “Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.”

— John F. Kennedy