black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

B. C. Forbes

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
There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
B. C. FORBES

Men People Self
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
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
B. C. FORBES

Business Retirement Success
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. FORBES

Adversity Challenges Motivational
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
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B. C. FORBES

Motivational Often Triumph
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
B. C. FORBES

Generosity Joy Selfishness
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. FORBES

Doe Inspire Unselfishness
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
B. C. FORBES

Current Electric Enthusiasm Progress
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B. C. FORBES

Character Honesty Men
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
B. C. FORBES

Children Fate Inspirational
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
B. C. FORBES

Disease Diversion Golf
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
B. C. FORBES

Knowledge Men Wisdom
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
B. C. FORBES

Biblical Humble Responsibility
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

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B. C. Forbes Quotes