B. C. Forbes
B. C. Forbes106 quotes“To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.”
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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.
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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 Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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.
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B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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