Bertie Charles Forbes Quotes

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Winds of adversity cause weak vessels to founder, but merely speed staunch vessels on their voyage.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The number of diplomas a young man has in his pocket, isn’t half as important as the amount of determination he has in his head.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To keep your body healthy, keep your mind healthy.
Bertie Charles Forbes

After storm, calm. After striving, success.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Spend less time talking about what you have done and more time in planning wise things to do.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To become a star, aim at the stars.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Life is like a bank: You get out of it what you put into it – with interest added.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Success is nothing but doing your full duty to the very best of your ability. Whatever rewards come are only trimmings.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Oaks spring from acorns, yes – but not overnight.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Hard going trains you to climb.
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Isn’t genius, after all, nothing but the quintessence of commonsense?
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All wealth is founded on health.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Nobody can hand you a ready-made key to open the door of success. You must fashion your own key and find the combination of the lock for yourself.
Bertie Charles Forbes

There are no escalators to the hilltop of success.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Your success depends upon you.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The basis of achievement is not thought or action, but thought and action.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
Bertie Charles Forbes

There are two main keys to success – Think and Work.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Education is observation rather than perspiration.
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With all thy getting, get understanding.
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Without ideas we sail without a chart, we tread an undefined path from which we are constantly in danger of falling or straying.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Ideals light up the journey of life. They are as ‘lamps to our feet.’
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Wealth is but me stored up… I am work.
Bertie Charles Forbes

A man who is unable to handle his own finances successfully is little likely to handle successfully the finances of others.
Bertie Charles Forbes

No nation can be strong and powerful unless its people save money.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Your savings are your stored up labor.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Many a fortune has been made by a man’s ability to seize an opportunity when it presented itself, an opportunity that called for the prompt furnishing of a certain sum of money. The man who is dependent upon his next week’s pay envelope for his next week’s meals is afraid to strike out for himself. He cannot afford to take any chance, to run any risk, to enter any new field. His poverty is as a tether…
Bertie Charles Forbes

Success is finding, or making, that position which enables you to contribute to the world the very greatest services of which you are capable, through the diligent, persevering, resolute cultivation of all the faculties God has endowed you with, and doing it all with cheerfulness, scorning to allow difficulties or defeats to drive you to pessimism or despair.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Success… consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Success is not spelled $ucce$$.
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Building success is like building a cathedral.
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Success is not to be achieved by one stroke, no matter how brilliant. Success cannot be evolved overnight. Success is the final fruit of millions of thoughts and acts, millions of little untrumpeted efforts, millions of experimental steps.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Mushroom successes often have mushroom finishes.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Good excuses don’t change bad results.
Bertie Charles Forbes

There isn’t a right-minded woman in the land who would not prefer to remain in moderate circumstances and enjoy the rational companionship of her husband and have their children also see a lot of Dad rather than become rich at the expense of a blighted family life and the wrecking of Dad’s health.
Bertie Charles Forbes

There’s something you can achieve without effort: failure. Nothing else.
Bertie Charles Forbes

If you can’t do what you like, like what you do.
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Create, or vacate.
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If you have lost faith in others it’s because you have ceased to deserve the faith of others.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Any time is a good time to start carrying out a good idea.
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