B. C. Forbes Quotes

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

I ain't going to say everything I touch turns to gold or camouflage. I've got to work hard to keep what I've got. Nothing comes easy to me. It never has.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

I've struggled a lot for what I have today.