B. C. Forbes on goodwill
B. C. Forbes106 quotes“Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.”
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. ForbesB. 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. ForbesB. C. Forbes He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B. C. ForbesB. 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. ForbesB. C. Forbes Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes 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 Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
B. C. ForbesB. 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. ForbesB. 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. ForbesB. C. Forbes 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. ForbesB. C. Forbes There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.
Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani This is just one reason why I am thrilled to be working with the UN Environment as its Goodwill Ambassador.
Adrian GrenierAdrian Grenier All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake… will be felt right up to the White House.
Abol-Ghasem KashaniAbol-Ghasem Kashani So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
Robert GravesRobert Graves Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
Robert GravesRobert Graves My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah
