Jimmy Carter Quotes

The best way to enhance your own happiness is to contribute to the happiness of others.

We become not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

You can’t divorce religious belief and public service.

The knowledge we have within us is just as important as the information we seek from others.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Jimmy Carter Quotes part 2

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of arms.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to have to rely upon partisan or misguided reporting of his words and deeds.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.

Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our national beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a sustainable future.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

We’ve got to have a minority outreach program in our party, otherwise we’re not going to be competitive in the years ahead.

We need to strengthen our military through technology and better pay for our troops.

Improving the quality of life for people everywhere is a noble human endeavor, and it’s our responsibility to do it to the best of our ability.

Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

We must face the risk of extinction, together, shoulder to shoulder, with the rest of mankind.

The world has changed, and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so, we are safe when we cling to Him.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for all times and all places; however, its not an easy commandment to keep.

We know we have still not recovered from that disaster, and we know that unless we work together, our efforts will have limited impact.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

The best way to predict the future is to plan for it.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic process.

The United States has the potential to lead in renewable energy, but we have to take the steps now to make that happen.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself—always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

The establishment of justice is the foundation of peace.

A strong defense – the ability to defend ourselves – is the foundation of our security.