161 Quotes by B. C. Forbes

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.

There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

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.

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.