Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYour ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAnytime you don’t want anything you get it.
CALVIN COOLIDGEOur government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAmerican ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
CALVIN COOLIDGEMan everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
CALVIN COOLIDGENothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe 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 COOLIDGEThere is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThere is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIf all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWorkmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAll growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
CALVIN COOLIDGETeaching 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEKnowledge 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 COOLIDGEThey 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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