James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician, author, and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center.
Carter has been highly active since leaving the White House. Although his presidency has drawn medium-low responses from historians, many consider him to have accomplished more with his post-presidency work .
He has also traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, observe elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations
Read below some inspiring Quotes of Jimmy Carter.
I’m Perfectly At Ease With Whatever Comes.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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.
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.
You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
You just have to have a simple faith.
