John F. Kennedy Quotes about Leadership

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Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

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

John F. Kennedy

Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

John F. Kennedy

Leadership, Acceptance, Historical

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

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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

John F. Kennedy

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.

John F. Kennedy

Leadership, Country, Adversity

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

John F. Kennedy

Leadership, Courage, Patriotic

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

John F. Kennedy

Leadership, Time, Opportunity

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

John F. Kennedy

Leadership, Patriotism, Born

The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.

John F. Kennedy

Leadership, Adventure, Race

Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas