Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
CALVIN COOLIDGESurprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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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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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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