Calvin Coolidge Quotes and Quotations
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing
is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded
genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press
on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Editor: Definitely one of my favorites!
There is no right to strike against the public safety of anybody, anywhere,
any time. [1919 about Boston Police Strike; the quote made him famous]
Calvin Coolidge
Advertising is the life of trade.
Calvin Coolidge
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that
has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility
of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater
work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Calvin Coolidge
After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
Calvin Coolidge
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually
without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace
and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down
and keep still.
Calvin Coolidge
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Calvin Coolidge
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when
I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim
it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of
success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made
progress.
Calvin Coolidge
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will
run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action
more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone
else can do for you.
Calvin Coolidge
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in
the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the
ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the
tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Calvin Coolidge
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature
any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their
declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Calvin Coolidge
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