Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (American Philanthropist)

Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890–1995) was an American philanthropist and socialite. She was deeply embedded in the “lace curtain” Irish Catholic community in Boston, where her father was mayor. She was the wife of businessman and investor Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who was United States Ambassador to the Court of St James’s. Their nine children included President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy.

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Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Arguments

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Family

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Oppression

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Trials, Justice

I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Aging, Age

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts—spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back—length of life.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Gifts

In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Confidence

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Business

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Anxiety, Worry

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Adversity, Blessings, Gratitude, Birds, Appreciation, Joy

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Topics: Marriage

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