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B. C. Forbes
Scottish
Journalist
About the author
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#God
#Anger
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Life
#Golf
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Act
#Difficulties
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Books
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Life
#Business
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Business
#Results
#Order
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#History
#Obstacles
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Man
#Failure
#Conscience
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Life
#Work
#Pleasure
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,
Scottish
Journalist
#Want
#Work
#Help
#Exercise
#Worry
#Sleep
#Recreation
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Being
#First
#Satisfaction
#Credit
To make headway, improve your head.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Will
#Business
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Man
#Luck
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Satisfaction
#Bargain
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Success
#World
#May
#Man
#Failure
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Hurt
#Truth
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Man
#Reality
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Cancer
#Jealousy
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes,
Scottish
Journalist
#Spring
#Harvest
#Plants
#Autumn
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,
Scottish
Journalist
#Hope
#Will
#World
#May
#Faith
#Trust
#Confidence
#Courage