Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B. C. FORBESIf a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
More B. C. Forbes Quotes
-
-
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
B. C. FORBES -
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. FORBES -
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBES -
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.
B. C. FORBES -
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
B. C. FORBES -
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 -
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. FORBES -
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B. C. FORBES -
…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
B. C. FORBES -
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
B. C. FORBES -
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 -
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
B. C. FORBES -
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBES -
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. FORBES -
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
B. C. FORBES