B. C. Forbes
20 quotes.
Quotes by B. C. Forbes
- A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
- Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
- Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
- Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
- 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.
- 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.
- How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
- If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.
- If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
- It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
- Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
- Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
- Plan your work - work your plan
- Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
- The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
- The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
- Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
- Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
- 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.