10 ordspråk av Barry C. Forbes
Barry C. Forbes
 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. |
| Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. |
| Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living. |
| I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives. |
| Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. |
| Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. |
| It isn't success if it costs you the companionship and chumminess and love of your children. |
| Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. |
| 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... |
| The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys. |
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