B. C. Forbes Quotes Page 3

“Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.”

“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.”

“Upon our children – how they are taught – rests the fate – or fortune – of tomorrow's world.”

“Use life to provide something that outlasts it.”

“We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.”

“What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.”

“When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.”

“Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.”

“Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.”

“You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.”

“Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.”

“Honesty is the cornerstone of character.”

“Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.”

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

“Real riches are the riches possessed inside.”

“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 of self-education.”