It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
B. C. FORBESIt is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
B. C. FORBESThere 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. FORBESMadame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
B. C. FORBESThink not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
B. C. FORBESTime mends all, ends all things earthly.
B. C. FORBESMany of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
B. C. FORBESTriumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B. C. FORBESThe 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.
B. C. FORBESYou have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
B. C. FORBESTo succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
B. C. FORBESSuccess consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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. FORBESJealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBESIf you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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