Jimmy Carter Quotes about Life

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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

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Healing, Teens

Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Determination, Commitment

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Softball, Religion

Speech to Bible class at Plains, Georgia, March 1976, in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser 11 Apr. 1976

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Strength, Kids

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

In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value.

Jimmy Carter

Life, War, Order

Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1030, Simon and Schuster

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Spiritual, Patriotic

"President, peacemaker, peanut farmer". www.cnn.com. October 11, 2002.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Jesus, Children

Interview, 16 Mar. 1976

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Religious, Freedom

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I dont believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Believe, Opportunity

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

In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Taken, Moving

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Political, Everyday