B. C. Forbes Quotes

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• No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every…
• To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
• ...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,…
• The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
• Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
• Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
• No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
• When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
• We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
• Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose,…
• A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
• You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.
• Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
• Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
• It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
• I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for…
• The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in…
• The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
• Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an…

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