Top 200 Calvin Coolidge Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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2. “Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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3. “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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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5. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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6. “It takes a great man to be a good listener.”

— Calvin Coolidge

7. “We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”

— Calvin Coolidge

8. “The final solution for unemployment is work.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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9. “It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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10. “Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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11. “Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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13. “School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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15. “In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.”

— Calvin Coolidge

16. “Silence can never be misquoted.”

— Calvin Coolidge

17. “The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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18. “Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.”

— Calvin Coolidge

19. “The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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20. “No man ever listened himself out of a job.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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21. “Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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22. “The business of America is business. ”

— Calvin Coolidge

23. “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

24. “If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.”

— Calvin Coolidge

25. “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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

26. “Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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27. “The world is full of educated derelicts.”

— Calvin Coolidge

28. “Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.”

— Calvin Coolidge

29. “There’s more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It’s the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It’s thoughtfulness and kindness, It’s hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!”

— Calvin Coolidge

30. “Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.”

— Calvin Coolidge

31. “No one ever lost his job by listening too much.”

— Calvin Coolidge

32. “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

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33. “Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.”

— Calvin Coolidge

34. “The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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35. “Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

37. “Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”

— Calvin Coolidge

38. “Self-government means self support.”

— Calvin Coolidge

39. “Civilization and profits go hand in hand.”

— Calvin Coolidge

40. “There 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 Coolidge

41. “After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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42. “The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.”

— Calvin Coolidge

43. “What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don’t, its meaning can never be fully understood!”

— Calvin Coolidge

44. “Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!”

— Calvin Coolidge

45. “Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important and that his work well done is a part of an unending plan.”

— Calvin Coolidge

46. “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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

47. “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

48. “You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.”

— Calvin Coolidge

49. “Money will not purchase character or good government.”

— Calvin Coolidge

50. “Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.”

— Calvin Coolidge