John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

The gods too are fond of a joke.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

They say miracles are past.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.