Calvin Coolidge Quotes

American - President July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men 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.

Calvin Coolidge

Education Failure Alone Men

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts 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

Work Hard Work Wisdom Time

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

Work Growth Effort Development

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge

Honor Person Reward He Been

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

Calvin Coolidge

Advertising Development Through Mass

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Calvin Coolidge

Funny Hurt Never Said

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Calvin Coolidge

You Know Too Much Say

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Calvin Coolidge

Man Temple Blame Praise

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Live Political Race American

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge

Simple Never Always Right

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Calvin Coolidge
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge

Strength Strong Down Build Weak

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

Work People Unemployment Results

Advertising is the life of trade.

Calvin Coolidge

Life Advertising Trade

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

Yourself Looking Patriotism Easy

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

Only Prosperity Used Instrument

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge

Legal Taxes More Than Collecting

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

Work Men Unemployment Results

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

Good Man Great Great Man

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge

Important Independence Dignity Your

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Calvin Coolidge

Good Hope Great Progress

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Calvin Coolidge

Everything Something Cannot Once

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Calvin Coolidge

Me Communication Never Nothing

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

You Road Down Run

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

Nation Will Forgotten Which Itself

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

Nature Men Challenge Body

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Calvin Coolidge

You Someone Never Meet

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