Bertie Charles Forbes Quotes

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Vanity betokens littleness.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The man with a crooked streak can’t think straight.
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Be fair; then you need fear neither God nor man.
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The poorest specimen of ‘fish’ is he who is sel-fish.
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Mankind’s salvation lies in education.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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I once revisited a city and was coming away sad when one handclasp sent me off with a smiling heart. Why not be the one to give similar handclasps?
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Look upon your duties, not as so many obligations, but as opportunities.
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After all, the shortest road is the straight road.
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Improve your mind and your output will improve.
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Act, or you’ll become reactionary.
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If you don’t do your best you will get the worst of it in the end.
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The fellow who fancies himself ‘the whole cheese’ is at least a piece of it.
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Purpose and perspiration are a winning team.
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Be as busy as you like but never buzzy.
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What epitaph would you like to earn? Think this over, and formulate an answer. It’s a wholesome exercise.
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And do it with a smile on your lips even if you have no song in your heart.
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Don’t condemn all capitalists. You may be one some day.
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When everybody’s timid, leaders emerge. ‘Do it now.’
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Use your mind or you will never be of much use.
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We may think we want justice. What we want is mercy. We need it.
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To cut an enviable figure in the world is of more moment than having an enviable figure in the bank.
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Fear pays no dividends.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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The worker who does good work ranks with any man noted for good works.
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Any time is a good time to start carrying out a new idea.
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‘Riches have wings.’ Yes, but they can fly to you as well as from you – provided you deserve them and would be any better off if you got them.
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Loafing is not living. Living is doing.
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If you can’t stand adversity you’re not fitted to stand prosperity. Think this over.
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Don’t imagine that because you wear hobnail shoes and blue shirt that you work harder than any man in patent leather shoes and silk shirt. Brain work can be more killing than brawn work.
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Hustle, or you’ll get left behind.
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You can’t express yourself unless you get a move on.
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‘A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh,’ declared Raymond Hitchcook when haled into the bankruptcy court. Said Carnegie: ‘Millionaires seldom laugh.’ Do your own moralizing.
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Covetousness kills content.
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Honesty, are you as badly off as you make yourself believe you are?
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Be sure to distinguish between having self respect and having conceit. The first in indispensable. The second is contemptible.
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A clean conscience is better than unclean cash.
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Happiness does just happen. It has to be earned. Everything has.
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The fellow who is always late never blames himself. If he did, he would cease being late.
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