» Calvin Coolidge http://bananablueberry.com Mon, 02 Jul 2018 22:07:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Quotable Friday http://bananablueberry.com/index.php/2010/01/quotable-friday-25/ http://bananablueberry.com/index.php/2010/01/quotable-friday-25/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:54:51 +0000 http://bananablueberry.com/?p=1033 Quotable Friday    “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 derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.  The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

-Calvin Coolidge

Hotel Magnate and Philanthropist of the Year, Stewart Bainum, presented each of his children, while they were growing up, with this quote in a frame.

-From Bethesda Magazine

 


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