Quotes by B. C. Forbes

“Jealousy... is a mental cancer.”

“The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Dont put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.”

“If you dont drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”

“There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.”

“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.”

“Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you cant expect an angel to look out.”

“A shady business never yields a sunny life”

“Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a mans hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook”

“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.”

The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself looked it full in the face and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure youre a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

When it comes to betting on yourself ... youre a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

Pity the human being who is not able to connect faith within himself with the infinite.... 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.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty esteem cordiality sympathy affection readiness to aid to help to stick to fight for if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

It is when things go hardest when life becomes most trying that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.