"Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off……" — B. C. Forbes
"Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others."
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112 Quotes by B. C. Forbes
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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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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
— B. C. Forbes
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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and…
— Mark Twain
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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a…
— Blaise Cendrars
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Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic…
— Bill Keller
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The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
— Murray Bookchin
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Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks…
— Wilder Penfield
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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water.…
— Margaret Visser
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Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
— Owen Feltham
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A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.
— Ming-Dao Deng
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That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
— Eric Hoffer
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Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after…
— Theodor Adorno
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We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that…
— Ai Weiwei
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