Calvin Coolidge Quotes

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

Christmas, Peace, Time

Nothing in this 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 failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Failure, Education, Alone

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

Strength, Strong, Down

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge

Legal, Necessary, Taxes

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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge

Democratic, Force, Ideal

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

Funny, Hurt, Said

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

Important, Living, Means

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

Work, Effort, Means

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, Time, Experience

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
Calvin Coolidge

Power, Spiritual, Seen

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

Patriotism, Yourself, Country

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge

Nation, Forgotten, Defenders

It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge

Good, Great, Takes

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

Live, Greatest, Political

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

Everything, Cannot, Once

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge

Politics, Men, Show

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge

Care, Simple, Big

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge

Religion, Men, Grow

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

Down, Before, Road

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

Person, Honor, Gave

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

Time, Best, Done

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin Coolidge

Great, Alone, Others

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

Blame, Works, Praise

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge

Personal, Duty, Collective

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

Through, Almost, Mass

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: July 4, 1872

Died: January 5, 1933

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