Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

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

Success

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

Success

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Success

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

Wisdom

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Life

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Life

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Success

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

Wisdom

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

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

Hope

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom