Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B. C. FORBESEnthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
More B. C. Forbes Quotes
-
-
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. FORBES -
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B. C. FORBES -
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. FORBES -
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
B. C. FORBES -
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
B. C. FORBES -
…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 -
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B. 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.
B. C. FORBES -
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.
B. C. FORBES -
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B. C. FORBES -
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
B. C. FORBES -
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. FORBES -
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. FORBES -
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
B. C. FORBES -
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B. C. FORBES