Bertie Charles Forbes Quotes

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The world bestows its rewards for results; our inward selves for effort.
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Do it better.
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Without aiming steadily you can’t hope to hit the bull’s-eye.
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The grouch throws sand into the machinery.
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Strive to be a racehorse rather than a truckhorse. Racehorses are thoroughbreds.
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The day’s mile can be shortened by prefixing an ‘s’ to it.
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Bad temper is bad business.
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Dodging work is the hardest work of all and yields the poorest returns.
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The man who sticks rarely gets stuck.
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Do you make up a mental balance-sheet of yourself every night?
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There’s more fun in leading than lagging.
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Money is what you make it: a blessing or a curse. And a lot depends on how you make it.
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Verve is better than nerve.
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Note the central letter in ‘raise.’
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Strict adherence to an eight-hour day may get you a living but it isn’t likely to get you much else.
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You are your own pay-master.
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The dearest thing you can sell is your own self-respect.
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Your setbacks should set your teeth.
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Loafing leads to starvation.
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Does your recreation really re-create energy for your work? If not, change it.
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Before life’s balance is finally struck, the meritorious worker gets paid, and the shirker has to pay.
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To fare well yourself, help along the welfare of others.
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When our final account comes to be made up a large heart will count for more than a larger fortune.
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The fellow who plays cards brilliantly on the commuters’ train every morning is not likely to do anything else very brilliantly during the day.
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To get more don’t only work more but work more intelligently.
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If you don’t build foundations as strong as a rock you are liable to land on the rocks.
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Useful work, not easy leisure, is the thing worth aspiring to.
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Mix that fine imagination of yours with elbow-grease.
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The fellow who blows hard seldom works hard.
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Notice that the first three letters in sinecure are sin.
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To rise from the bottom, get to the bottom of things.
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Do people really like to associate with you? Just think it over.
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‘I’ is at the center of c-l-i-m-b.
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Have confidence in yourself only after you are entitled to.
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An active brain is of little use unless you act.
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If you can’t submit to bossing you’re never likely to boss.
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The employee who is late for work is liable to be late when Opportunity comes along.
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Sneers scar. Smiles heal.
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Are you doing your best? Ask the question yourself before your employer has to ask it.
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It’s better to ask questions first than make apologies afterwards.
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