Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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
Without
Would
Life
Bunkers
Tame
Monotonous
Hazards
Golf
More quotes by B. C. Forbes
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. Forbes
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. 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
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. Forbes
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!
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
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
B. C. Forbes
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
B. C. Forbes
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.
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.
B. C. Forbes
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.
B. C. Forbes
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
B. C. Forbes
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
B. C. Forbes
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
B. C. Forbes
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. Forbes
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. Forbes
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?
B. C. Forbes
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
B. C. Forbes
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. Forbes
