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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.
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Faith, Trust, Hope
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Jealousy, Cancer, Mental
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.
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History, Before, Become
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business, Drive, Driven
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Credit, Driver, Truck
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Success, Best, Failure
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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Truth, Hurt, Unless
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Gardening, Spring, Autumn
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Busy, Making, Luck
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business, Order, Results
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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Books, Mirror, Expect
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheated, Suspicious
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Life, Business, Sunny
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Act, Greater, Exertion
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Business, Real, Inside
To make headway, improve your head.
B. C. Forbes
Head, Improve, Headway
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Life, Golf, Tame
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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God, Best, Anger
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Reality, Patient, Thinks
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Mutual, Bargain, Apt
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure, Conscience, Won
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
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Work, Tired, Sleep
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
B. C. Forbes
Less, Inside, Outside
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. Forbes
Life, Work, Pleasure

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish
Born: May 14, 1880
Died: May 6, 1954

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