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Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
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When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
I'm an idealist without illusions.
- John F. Kennedy
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
We are tied to the ocean.
And when we go back to the sea,
whether it is to sail or to watch -
we are going back from whence we came.
- John F. Kennedy
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
And so, my fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture,
society must set the artist free
to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you have an important point to make,
don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
We come this way but once.
We can either tiptoe through life
and hope we get to death without being badly bruised
or we can live a full, complete life achieving
our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
- Bob Proctor
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
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