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Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Life, Leadership

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Motivational, Real

Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Morning, Failure

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Change, Presidential

Bettina Stiekel, Jimmy Carter, Various (2003). “The Nobel Book of Answers: The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Other Nobel Prize Winners Answer Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions for Young People”, Simon and Schuster

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Life, Beauty

Jimmy Carter (1988). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, Bantam

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

1978 Address to the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, 9 Nov.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Veterans Day, Peace

Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy. But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Pain, Overcoming

"Jimmy Carter on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Motivational, Rights

"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978". Book by Jimmy Carter, 1979.

People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world. It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Jobs, Powerful

It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus. Imperfect as it may be, there is no doubt that this can best be done through the United Nations, not merely to preserve peace but also to make change, even radical change, without violence.

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Strong, Business

Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1027, Simon and Schuster

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering. Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?

Jimmy Carter

Inspirational, Country, Business

"Jimmy Carter on The American Dream". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.