John F. Kennedy Quotes About Achievement

• I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Opportunity, Civilization

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, on October 26, 1963. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy", p. 817, 1963.

• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Progress

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

• Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

  John F. Kennedy

  Achievement, Effort, Democracy

• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Presidential

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

• I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, America, Achievement

• 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

• Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Keys, Space, Achievement

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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