B. C. Forbes quotes
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
~ B. C. Forbes (May 14, 1880 - May 06, 1954)
Keywords: finish, important, less, race, speed, sprinter, stamina, start, sticker, success
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results
~ B. C. Forbes (May 14, 1880 - May 06, 1954)
Topics: Business
Keywords: automobile, business, driven, in order
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
~ B. C. Forbes (May 14, 1880 - May 06, 1954)
Keywords: golf, life, monotonous, tame
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
~ B. C. Forbes (May 14, 1880 - May 06, 1954)
Keywords: done, Down, even, failure, level best, man, may, success, though, world, write
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.
~ B. C. Forbes (May 14, 1880 - May 06, 1954)
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
~ B. C. Forbes (May 14, 1880 - May 06, 1954)
Keywords: autumn, faithfully, farmer, harvest, spring
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
~ B. C. Forbes (May 14, 1880 - May 06, 1954)
Keywords: cancer, jealousy, mental
Site waves: jealousy, LAUGH, love, My quotes about life, woman
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
~ B. C. Forbes (May 14, 1880 - May 06, 1954)
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 (May 14, 1880 - May 06, 1954)
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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 (May 14, 1880 - May 06, 1954)
Topics: Faith
Keywords: appear, assuring, badly, calmness, come out, confidence, courage, even, faith, Hope, inward, may, reservoir, though, trust, world
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