Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
B. C. Forbes
Age: 73 †
Born: 1880
Born: May 14
Died: 1954
Died: May 6
Editor
Entrepreneur
Journalist
Publisher
Writer
B. C. Forbes
Difficulties
Adversity
Difficulty
Motivation
Motivational
Tonic
Challenges
Spur
Greater
Spurs
Exertion
More quotes by B. C. Forbes
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
B. C. Forbes
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
B. C. Forbes
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes
It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. Forbes
A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.
B. C. Forbes
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.
B. C. Forbes
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. Forbes
The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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.
B. C. Forbes
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
B. C. Forbes
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
B. C. Forbes
The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.
B. C. Forbes
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
B. C. Forbes
Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.
B. C. Forbes
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. Forbes
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
B. C. Forbes
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.
B. C. Forbes
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B. C. Forbes
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.
B. C. Forbes