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First Quotes by B. C. Forbes
- 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…
- First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth…
- 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…
- Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing.…
- It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half…
- When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some…
- Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is…
- There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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