John F. Kennedy Quotes About Leadership

• 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.

• 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

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

  John F. Kennedy

  Leadership, Acceptance, Historical

• 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

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