Bruce Barton Quotes (36 Quotes)

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.

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.

Cereal is not very high in calories, but it tends to be absorbed more slowly by the body, keeping you satisfied longer than, say, a bagel,

If we can find something as small as a finger or a tip of a finger, even, that could allow the police departments to hopefully get a DNA match on somebody. And that's going to allow closure for families.

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

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

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

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.

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

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

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 them was superior to circumstance.

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

When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.

Some of the girls who didn't eat cereal, would just raid the fridge in the morning, ... One had a breakfast of hot dogs and chocolate milk.

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.

This is a study of girls during adolescence, from 9 to 19, which is an age range that has not been well studied. This is an age range when a lot of girls put on a lot of weight.

We think it kick-starts your metabolism because you've eaten something. When you get to lunch you're not starving and you can make reasonable choices for lunch and dinner.

An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.

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

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

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.

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.

Skipping breakfast really came out as a predictor of weight gain, ... I don't know if anyone realized the magnitude of breakfast skipping. By age 19 almost 45 percent were skipping breakfast.

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

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm.

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. Embrace failure Seek it out. Learn to love it.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

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