Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Quote by Calvin Coolidge
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Calvin Coolidge Quotes
- No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
- 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.
- All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
- The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
- We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
- 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.
- 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. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- 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.
- I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.
- Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
- There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
- It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
- The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
- I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
- Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
- My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
- But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.