Calvin Coolidge

Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. 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

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

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

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

Calvin Coolidge

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

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

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

Calvin Coolidge

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

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

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

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.

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Advertising is the life of trade.

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

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

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.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

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

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

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.