35 Total Quotes
C. Forbes Quotes
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.
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results
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.
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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.
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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.
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ¾ for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.