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 COOLIDGEYour ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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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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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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