Edward Bok
Dutch-American editor of The Ladies’ Home Journal and author, 1863-1930
13 quotes.
Quotes by Edward Bok
- A successful life is nothing more nor less than living as well as we know how and doing the very best that we can.
- A young man makes of a position exactly what he chooses, either a millstone around his neck or a stepping-stone to larger success.
- A young man who holds back for fear of making mistakes loses the first point of success.
- After acquiring true knowledge of himself, I know of nothing so valuable to a young man as an absolute distinctness of purpose, and then pursuing that purpose to success.
- Great successes have been made as often in quiet ways as with the blare of trumpets.
- He soon exploded for himself the misleading and comfortable theory of luck: the only lucky people, he found, were those who worked hard.
- If there exists a secret of success, it lies, perhaps, in concentration more than in any other single element.
- If we attempted only the possible in this world we should soon stop where we are; it is for the young man, with his enthusiasm, to battle with the impossible and carry the world a step farther on in discovery, if not in actual accomplishment.
- Just as the little courtesies of every-day life make life worth the living, so the little details form the bone and sinew of a great success.
- Success is simply doing anything to the utmost of one's ability--making as much of one's position as it is possible to make.
- The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living. Life is something more than these, and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life-service for others.
- The man who can overcome small worries is greater than the man who can override great obstacles.
- The truest success is that which is earned slowly, but which surely strengthens itself.