112 Quotes by B.C. Forbes

The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.