Edward Bok famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life -- service for others.
-- Edward Bok

#Men #Joy #Missing
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.
-- Edward Bok

#Success #Mind #Ease
Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.
-- Edward Bok

#Beautiful #World
The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.
-- Edward Bok

#Magazines #Today #Made
It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
-- Edward Bok

#Country #Growth #Excellence
The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine.
-- Edward Bok

#Giving #Magazines #Months
Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it. And put everything you've got into it.
-- Edward Bok

#Work
The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.
-- Edward Bok

#Success #Sports #Hard Work

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.
Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
God didn't miss any of us.

Edward Bok famous quotes

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