The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. FORBESThe Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
More B. C. Forbes Quotes
-
-
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
B. C. FORBES -
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
B. C. FORBES -
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. FORBES -
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
B. C. FORBES -
Bragging often precedes begging.
B. C. FORBES -
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
B. 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. FORBES -
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. FORBES -
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B. C. FORBES -
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B. C. FORBES -
Plan your work – work your plan
B. C. FORBES -
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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 -
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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