Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. FORBESWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. FORBESAny 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. FORBESHow you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
B. C. FORBESThe man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
B. C. FORBESWe must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBESSelfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
B. C. FORBESJustice 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. FORBESIt’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. FORBESMany a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
B. C. FORBESLady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
B. C. FORBESThe Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. FORBESHonesty 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. FORBESOpportunity 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. FORBESA word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
B. C. FORBESTemporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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