{"author":"B. C. Forbes","author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes","total_quotes":51,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["obstacles","winners","become "],"id":67,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"},{"text":"Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation  by actual experience in the school of life  by ceaseless alertness to learn from others  by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks  by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects  by constant study of human nature.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["role","models"],"id":2056,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"},{"text":"Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["adversity"],"id":21366,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"},{"text":"It is when things go hardest  when life becomes most trying  that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without  it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["goals"],"id":31649,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"},{"text":"Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... You will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["success"],"id":38527,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"},{"text":"Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["side"],"id":41811,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"},{"text":"The man who has done his level best... Is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["success","best","man "],"id":42006,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"},{"text":"Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong  able  alert men go after opportunity.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["opportunities"],"id":56810,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"},{"text":"Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and  if you know anything about their careers  you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["pressure","diamonds"],"id":82209,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"},{"text":"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.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["worry"],"id":85651,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}