Quotes to inspire and reflect

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

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.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

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.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

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.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Blindness cuts us off from things, but deafness cuts us off from people.

The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.