Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
B. C. FORBESOur future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
More B. C. Forbes Quotes
-
-
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
B. C. FORBES -
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
B. C. FORBES -
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
B. C. FORBES -
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. FORBES -
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
B. C. FORBES -
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
B. C. FORBES -
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
B. C. FORBES -
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 -
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
B. C. FORBES -
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B. C. FORBES -
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBES -
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBES -
If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
B. C. FORBES -
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
B. C. FORBES -
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. FORBES