black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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. Forbes

A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. FORBES

Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
B. C. FORBES

Decision Judgement Perfect
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

Confidence Courage Faith
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B. C. FORBES

Release Vacation Welcome
Bragging often precedes begging.
B. C. FORBES

Begging Bragging
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B. C. FORBES

Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
B. C. FORBES

Hands Pumps Work
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
B. C. FORBES

Idea Machines Material Raw
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
B. C. FORBES

Basketball Goal Trying
Many 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. FORBES

Brother Growing Up Successful
…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. FORBES

Adventure Destiny Sports
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B. C. FORBES

Joy Real Sorrow
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.
B. C. FORBES

Blow Effort Fate
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. FORBES

Europe Feet Hands
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. FORBES

Goodwill Yield
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
B. C. FORBES

Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing

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?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B. C. Forbes Quotes