B. C. Forbes Quotes

Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

B. C. Forbes

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• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Approach

• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Past

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Character
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Character
  • Imagination

• I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Emotion
  • Scared
  • Fearless

• We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Why
  • Man

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Mind
  • Balance
  • Unity

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • She
  • Character
  • Hate

• I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reading

• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Law

• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Soul

• The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Vision

• Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

  

  James Mansfield
  • May

• I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.

  

  Nolan Gould
  • Hot
  • Glasses
  • Cards

• As your body deteriorates, your natural talents start to go a little bit. You have to bring in physical working out, building, taking protein and doing extra stuff.

  

  Ben Roethlisberger

• I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Practice
  • Better

• Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Action