John F. Kennedy Quotes About Giving

• Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

  John F. Kennedy

  Change, Destiny, History

• Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hope, Cancer, Giving

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.9, Best Books on

• There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Hands, Giving

• Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

  John F. Kennedy

  Truth, Science, Tyrants

• The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Giving, World, Speech

• I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Quoted in Victor Lasky, J.F.K.: TheMan and the Myth (1963)

• Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jewels, Giving, Charity

• If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Crazy, Sacrifice

  "With Kennedy". Book by Pierre Salinger, Chapter 1: Lancer to Wayside, page 1, 1966.

• To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Past, Giving

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.19, Best Books on

• In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Rights, Giving

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.703, Best Books on

• I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-Nam, against the Communists.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Winning, Men

• This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of you to continue to work in public affairs and be interested in them, not only to bring up a family, but also give part of your time to your community, your state, and your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Giving, Community

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.621, Best Books on

• The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of our earliest days - Thomas Jefferson - when he said, not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. If the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was Secretary of State, and twice President, could give it two hours, our children can give it ten or fifteen minutes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Exercise, Men

• The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Past, Keys, Giving

• I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.

  John F. Kennedy

  Giving, Political, Hammers

  "Commencement address, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts". June 8, 1958.

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