Calvin Coolidge Quotes

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Hopefully, next year if we can get everything sorted out and together.

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.

Organization, not machine. Get that. Organization, not machine.

The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army.

It's easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy part. The doing is the hard part.

Another word for politics in my mind is organization. You have to be organized; you have to get out there. It's not just magic.

You can't just set the vision, take a nap, and not keep working on making your vision happen. Your intention has to be backed by work.

It takes all 11 on the field doing their job correctly to make it all happen.

You always intend to do this and that, but then you have to go out and do it on the pitch.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

It is easy to talk about development. However, it entails painstaking efforts to actually make it happen.

Some guys have all this talent, and you wonder why they can't put it all together. Well, they don't do any of the little things.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

Do more than believe: practice.

You have to get your hands dirty. You've got to really deliver the goods, and when you do, you can get something really special.

The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity.