Quotes from Bruce Barton

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

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

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.

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

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

Advertising is of the very essence of democracy. 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 manufacturer and which product shall be the leader today, and which shall lead tomorrow.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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

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.

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

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

When you're through changing, you're through.