John F. Kennedy Quotes about Time

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We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Time, Past

John F. Kennedy's Speech at the 25th Anniverary of the Signing of the Social Security Act, Hyde Park, New York, www.jfklibrary.org. August 14, 1960.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John F. Kennedy

Funny, Time, Presidential

John F. Kennedy's Address in New York City to the National Association of Manufacturers, www.jfklibrary.org. December 5, 1961.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

John F. Kennedy

Time, Reality, Environmental

Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

John F. Kennedy

Time, Science, Maturity

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

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Time, Art, Past

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

John F. Kennedy

Time, Past, Needs

Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

John F. Kennedy

Nature, Time, Hands

Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.148, Best Books on

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Time, Tree

Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.266, Best Books on