The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out. B. C. Forbes More Quotes by B. C. Forbes More Quotes From B. C. Forbes Jealousy... is a mental cancer. B. C. Forbes cancer jealous jealousy Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. B. C. Forbes success motivational inspirational Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind. B. C. Forbes successful class father 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 order to gain success. B. C. Forbes leadership success men 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 confidence faith courage Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry. B. C. Forbes tired workout sleep The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. B. C. Forbes greed life world Bragging often precedes begging. B. C. Forbes bragging begging 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 doing well. And to do anything well, wheter it be typing a letter or drawing up an agreement involving millions, we must give not only our hands to the doing of it, but our brains, our enthusiasm, the best - all that is in us. The task to which you dedicate yourself can never become a drudgery. B. C. Forbes drawing agreement hands Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. B. C. Forbes triumph often-is motivational A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish. B. C. Forbes often-can accomplish appreciation Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. B. C. Forbes dessert-first meat positive It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. B. C. Forbes spring inspirational fall Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. B. C. Forbes hazards golf life What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you. B. C. Forbes confidence courage fear Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world. B. C. Forbes fate inspirational children Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous. B. C. Forbes crush success memories A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone. B. C. Forbes horse business men We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness. B. C. Forbes suicidal selfishness happiness Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted.... To be soft-hearted may be handicapping, in a sense. But on the whole, a soft heart is to be preferred to a hard heart. Hard-hearted, severe, dominating giants sometimes manage to get further and to amass more money. But they get less genuine joy out of life.... It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most to endanger the harmonious progress of democracy. B. C. Forbes heart joy people
