B. C. Forbes on bigs
B. C. Forbes106 quotes“You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.”
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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.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes 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.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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