John F. Kennedy Quotes

Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Turmoil stimulates.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

Change will always be violent.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

Some talk change. Others cause it..

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

The future belongs to those who change it.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

Sometimes you got to mess stuff up to get change going.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

Make history or be a part of it.