1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge – [Growth]
Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge – [Profits]
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge – [Strength]
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Calvin Coolidge – [Heroes and Heroism]
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 – [Critics and Criticism]
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge – [Words]
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Calvin Coolidge – [Law and Lawyers]
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge – [Silence]
If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge – [Trials]
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge – [Worship]
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 – [Wisdom]
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge – [Progress]
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 – [Right and Rightness]
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 – [Service]
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge – [Talkativeness]
No one every listened themselves out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge – [Listening]
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge – [Honor]
Nothing in the 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 – [Perseverance]
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge – [Patriotism]
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge – [Prosperity]