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.
JF
John F. KennedyAddress at Rice University (1962)
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)
- 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)
- As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.Thanksgiving Day Proclamation (1963)
- Things don't just happen, they are made to happen.Speech at the Arkansas State Fairground, Little Rock (1963)
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- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.Elon Musk
- Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.Maya Angelou
- Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.Maya Angelou
- If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.Maya Angelou
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