B. C. Forbes on yield
B. C. Forbes106 quotes“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.”
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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.
B. C. ForbesB. 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.
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B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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More on yield
History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.
Tim CookTim Cook I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Queen Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth But to stir up the gift and allow God’s Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God’s mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth You must be yielded to the Word of God. The Word will work out love in our hearts, and when practical love is in our hearts, there is no room to boast about ourselves. We see ourselves as nothing when we get lost in this divine love.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
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