Bruce Barton Quotes

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

When you are through changing, you are through.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

When you're through changing you're through.

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

There are no little things.

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.

If you can give your son or daughet only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.