black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

B. C. Forbes

You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
B. C. FORBES

Bigs Idea Trouble
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
B. C. FORBES

Cost Men Self
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
B. C. FORBES

Journey Men Return
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
B. C. FORBES

Idea Machines Material Raw
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. FORBES

Feelings Hurt
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
B. C. FORBES

Business Retirement Success
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.
B. C. FORBES

Sleep Tired Workout
To make headway, improve your head.
B. C. FORBES

Habit Headway Make Work
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBES

Intelligent Men Opportunity
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

Character Honesty Men
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
B. C. FORBES

Inspirational Motivational Opportunity
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
B. C. FORBES

Disease Diversion Golf
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.
B. C. FORBES

Gains Practice Virtue
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
B. C. FORBES

Manners Moral People
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. FORBES

Knowledge Men Wisdom
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. FORBES

Provide Something Use

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B. C. Forbes Quotes