Quotes from B. C. Forbes

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

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

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

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

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

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

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

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

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

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

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.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

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

Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

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