Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Many
Resist
Never
Optimism
Men
Grown
Brother
Growing
Successful
Youthfulness
Known
Twin
Spirit
Twins
More quotes by B. C. Forbes
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
B. C. Forbes
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
B. C. Forbes
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. Forbes
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
B. C. Forbes
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
B. C. Forbes
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B. C. Forbes
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
B. C. Forbes
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
B. C. Forbes
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. Forbes
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. Forbes
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
B. C. Forbes
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.
B. C. Forbes
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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
