As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
JF
John F. KennedyThanksgiving Day Proclamation (1963)
About John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States who launched the race to the Moon. (1917-1963)
More from John F. Kennedy
- Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.Inaugural Address (1961)
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.Inaugural Address (1961)
- We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.Address at Rice University (1962)
- Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.Remarks prepared for delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas (1963)
- Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche, Frankfurt (1963)
- Things don't just happen, they are made to happen.Speech at the Arkansas State Fairground, Little Rock (1963)
More quotes on gratitude
- Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
- I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'Kurt Vonnegut
- Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.John Wooden
- I always count my blessings, more than I count my money.Dolly Parton
- I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does.Fred Rogers
- Begin with praise and honest appreciation.Dale Carnegie
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