B. C. Forbes Quotes
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.