purpose Quotes

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.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

I like policy. It's why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government - you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that's important to me.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.