Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American activist Eunice Kennedy Shriver.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver was an American philanthropist and a member of the Kennedy family. She was the founder of the Special Olympics, a sports organization for persons with physical and intellectual disabilities. For her efforts on behalf of disabled people, Shriver was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984.

American - Activist | July 10, 1921 - August 11, 2009

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I don't particularly want to be in the White House.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

I'm very happy doing what I do. And if I were in the White House I would be really interested in continuing to do what I do, which is working... That's a very cold answer, I guess, but I was trying to answer in terms of ambition.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

People are always saying, what use are the retarded, on welfare, using up all our funds, and yet, where else is there every day a greater example of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity than these people?

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children - children with mental retardation - can be exceptional athletes, the fact that through sports they can realize their potential for growth.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

When you're in a big family you have to hustle all the time. But I think that's a good quality to instill in your children, for whatever they have to get.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

For a long time my family believed that all of us working together could provide my sister with a happy life in our midst. My parents, strong believers in family loyalty, rejected suggestions that Rosemary be sent away to an institution.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

If you don't have an idea that materializes and changes a person's life, then what have you got? You have talk, research, telephone calls, meetings, but you don't have a change in the community.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Do the best you can, and then to hell with it!

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Looks fade. Brains don't.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver