There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy - Risk - Action

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy - Negotiation - Fear

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 - Action - America - Questions - Encouragement

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy - Education - Great - Hopes - Dreams - Strength

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy - Freedom - Growth

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger-but recognize the opportunity.
John F. Kennedy - Risk - Crisis - Opportunity

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy - Ideas - Death

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises.. it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
John F. Kennedy - Encouragement - America - Challenges

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 - Risk - Challenges - Ethics

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy - Change - Life - Motivational

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy - Forgiveness