112 Quotes by B.C. Forbes

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

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.

Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.