Bertie Charles Forbes

Quote: What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: 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... [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: 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. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: Real riches are the riches possessed inside. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: A shady business never yields a sunny life. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: 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. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: Jealousy... is a mental cancer. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

Quote: There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. [Bertie Charles Forbes]

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