"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather……" — B. C. Forbes
"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter."
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112 Quotes by B. C. Forbes
B. C. Forbes has 112 quotes on this site.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of…
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage,…
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of…
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When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to…
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Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man…
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
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There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was…
— Pope John Paul II
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as…
— Wendell Berry
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Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the…
— Timothy Keller
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Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people…
— Khalid ibn al-Walid
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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few…
— Richard Perle
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Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by…
— Edward S. Curtis
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