Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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.
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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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.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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The business of America is business.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Civilization is measured in no small part by these standards. The famous beauty and symmetry of the Greek race in its prime was due in no small part to their general participation in athletic games. This meant development.
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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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.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.