John F. Kennedy Quotes About Talent

• All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

• I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Remarks at dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere, Washington, D.C., 29 Apr. 1962

• This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way that they are going to get their rights is to go in the street and demonstrate. I think we owe them and we owe ourselves a better country than that.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Children, Thinking

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

• Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Motivation, Should Have

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

• probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  House, Genius, Talent

  New York Times 30 Apr. 1962, p. 1

• We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

  John F. Kennedy

  Work, Believe, Men

• I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Character, Men

• 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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