Calvin Coolidge Famous Quotes
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them."
I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
"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 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."
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
"There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time."
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
The chief business of the American people is business.
"Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you."
Calvin Coolidge Quotations
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Plato
"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
Nigerian Proverb
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Publilius Syrus
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
Jonathan Swift
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."
Elizabeth KublerRoss
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Michael J Gelb
"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."
Robert P Vanderpoel
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
Dan Quayle
"Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth."
Peter McWilliams
"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."
Mark Twain