Born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald in November 20, 1925 at Brookline, Massachusetts, US, Robert F Kennedy was a U.S. attorney general and adviser and a senator. He was also known as RFK and his nickname Bobby. His full name was Robert Francis Kennedy. Robert left Harvard University to serve U.S. Navy during World War II from 1944 to 1946. Later he returned for his studies and got graduated in 1948. Below we’re presenting a collection of most inspirational quotes by Robert F Kennedy that are about change and life and also why not.
During the presidency of his brother, John. F. Kennedy, Robert served as attorney general and advisor (1961-63). From 1965 to 1968 he served as U.S. senator. On midnight of June 5, 1968, Kennedy was wounded after being shot with a pistol by Sirhan Sirhan. He died 25 hours later on June 6.
Robert F. Kennedy Quotes
- “Change has its enemies.”- Robert Kennedy
- “Now I can go back to being ruthless again.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “A life without criticism is not worth living.”- Robert Kennedy
- “Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “Your life can be anything you want it to be.”- Robert Kennedy
- “The purpose of life is to contribute in any way to making things better.”- Robert Kennedy
- “The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.”- Robert Kennedy
- “Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law.”- Robert Kennedy
- “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”- Robert Kennedy
- “I’m tired of chasing people.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.” – Robert Kennedy
- “The greatest truth must be the recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “In your hands, lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land.”- Robert Kennedy
“You’re the happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.”- Robert Kennedy
- “From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.”- Robert Kennedy
- “He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.”- Robert Kennedy
- “The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.”- Robert Kennedy
- “In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war.”- Robert Kennedy
- “The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.”- Robert Kennedy
- “Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.”- Robert Kennedy
- “Some men see things as they are, and say ‘why?’. I dream of things that never were, and say ‘why not.'”- Robert F Kennedy
- “One of the primary purposes of civilization – and certainly its primary strength – is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.”- Robert Kennedy
- “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience.”- Robert Kennedy
- “Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “You had better pretend you don’t know me. Everyone connected to me seems jinxed.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “I think, there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.”- Robert Kennedy
- “All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.”- Robert F Kennedy
“Great change dominates the world and unless we move with change, we will become its victims.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “The freeway of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “Every generation helps make its own future and this is the essential challenge of the present.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “I thought they’d get one of us, but Jack’s been through, never worried about it. I thought it would be me.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “Whenever we tear the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for his own self and his children, the whole nation is degraded.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “If you win, the reporters will always write about well-oiled machines and super-planning. If you lose, they will always write about hopeless incompetence.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks.”- Robert Kennedy
- “We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”- Robert Kennedy
- “While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of the government.”- Robert Kennedy
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- “America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity – the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries.”- Robert Kennedy
- “It is more important to be of service than successful.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket.”- Robert Kennedy
- “What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.”- Robert F Kennedy
- “Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.”- Robert Kennedy
- “If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.”- Robert Kennedy
- “The first sign of tyranny is government’s complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.”- Robert Kennedy
- “Every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.”- Robert Kennedy
- “If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world had suffered a staggering blow.”- Robert Kennedy
- “Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable…”- Robert Kennedy
“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator.”- Robert Kennedy
- “I don’t try to antagonize people, but somebody has to be able to say no.”- Robert Kennedy.
