The best Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

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

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Ambition Education Talent Motivation

Knowledge 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.

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

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Woman: "Mr. Coolidge, I've made a bet against a fellow who said it was impossible to get more than two words out of you."
Calvin Coolidge: "You lose."

(as Vice-President of the United States)

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You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

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Massachusetts

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

Massachusetts

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren

Massachusetts

The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.

Elizabeth Warren (as Senator of Massachusetts) - February 9, 2019

Massachusetts

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Mitt Romney

Massachusetts

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

Massachusetts

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Massachusetts - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Massachusetts

The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy.

Grace Potter

Vermont

Are we happy that 99% of all new income is going to the top 1%? Are we happy that one family in this country owns more than the bottom 130 million people?

Bernie Sanders (as Senator of Vermont) - Late Night with Seth Meyers, 2. Juni 2015

2015 Vermont

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Vermont - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Vermont

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Death Selflessness

Time after time after time I do all this shit for other people, and then I wake up and I'm empty. I have nothing.

Tifanny in Silver Linings

Breakup Selflessness

Honor is for fools.

Doctor Octopus in Marvel Comic Books - Invincible Iron Man

Honor

Honor is the rust on a dull blade.

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Honor

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Nicole Scherzinger

Ambition Egoism

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.

Tim Duncan

Ambition

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

Usher

Education

It's wrong to think that an educational system could work without conveying values!

Roman Herzog

Education

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Joanne K. Rowling

Talent

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Frank Sinatra

Happiness Self-Confidence Talent

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!

Donald Trump - Juni 2025

Elon Musk

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

Joe Biden - August 2024

2024

You know, not only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world.

Joe Biden - July 2024

For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Barack Obama

Change

When you fall, the real test is whether you can ignore the naysayers, pick yourself up and come back stronger.

Barack Obama - January 28, 2013 - Miami Heat visit the White House

Beginning

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.

George W. Bush - September 2001

2001 September 11th

The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia. The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...- I mean of Ukraine.

George W. Bush - May 2022

Iraq

We can't do everything, but we have to do, what we can do.

Bill Clinton

Now there's no question China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. Good luck! That's sort of like trying to nail jello to the wall.

Bill Clinton - March 2000

Internet

We are not the sum of our possessions.

George H. W. Bush

Wealth & Richness

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

George H. W. Bush

USA

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

Peace

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Ronald Reagan

Life

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

USA Independence Day

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Jimmy Carter

Funny Quotes

Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Gerald R. Ford

USA

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

Gerald R. Ford

Punctuality Wise Sayings Evening

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