Bruce Barton Quotes

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

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

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. ~ Bruce Barton

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. ~ Bruce Barton

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

Nothing is so powerful or so perfect that it cannot be transformed utterly by the miracle of another girl. Or another boy ~ Bruce Barton

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

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

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

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

Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection. ~ Bruce Barton

When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all. ~ Bruce Barton

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home. ~ Bruce Barton

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. ~ Bruce Barton

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. ~ Bruce Barton

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. ~ Bruce Barton

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. ~ Bruce Barton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Bruce Barton

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

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. ~ Bruce Barton

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

Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work. ~ Bruce Barton

It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars. ~ Bruce Schneier

There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. Rock is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ass off, you know. ~ Bruce Springsteen

The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do. ~ Bruce Wilkinson

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse. ~ Bruce Hutchison

Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin. ~ Bruce Johnston

In the rearview mirror, they saw the young officer stumble out of the precinct just in time to see them speed away.
"A little slower on the turns, Alfred," Bruce managed to say as they screeched around a corner and bolted into a freeway tunnel.
Alfred chuckled. He still had his hospital band wrapped around his wrist. "WayneTech cars aren't made for slow turns, Master Wayne."
"And you wonder where I get it from." Bruce felt as if his stomach could touch his spine. Even in his Aston Martin, he'd never been able to drive the way Alfred was now.
"I used to be in the Royal Air Force, Master Wayne," Alfred answered in a dry tone. "At least I have an excuse. Just because one can doesn't mean one should. I expect you not to use this against me the next time you go for a joyride."
"I'll try not to," Bruce managed to reply as he clutched the edges of his seat. In the back seat, Harvey looked green. ~ Marie Lu

I founded the American Red Cross. ~ Clara Barton

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger. ~ Bruce Kent

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient. ~ Bruce Lee

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. ~ Michael Bruce

The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians. ~ Barton Gellman

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever. ~ Bruce Lee

Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad. ~ Barton Gellman

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do. ~ Bruce Willis

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc. ~ Hari Kondabolu

We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial. ~ Bruce Johnston

At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill. ~ Bruce Willis

But I knew deep down that the stuff behind could not just be dropped like it had nothing to do with what was ahead...There was just too much, too many strange angles and things left jaggedy open so you did not know they would ever shut right. ~ Bruce Brooks

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly. ~ Bruce Jackson

(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!? ~ Bruce Dickinson

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge. ~ Bruce Dern

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes. ~ Bruce Beresford

If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises. ~ Bruce McCall

I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern. ~ Jonathan Levine

Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going. ~ Bruce Springsteen

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists. ~ Craig Bruce

To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself - that, my friend, is very hard to do. ~ Bruce Lee

Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea. ~ Bruce Springsteen

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. ~ Bruce Catton

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth. ~ Bruce Lee

Growing tired of dishing out expensive cat food, Paulette started leaving sales receipts next to the bowl. Surely that would lead to some appreciation. ~ Bruce Rousseau

There is no one who has ever created music with the combination of intelligence, intuition, depth, creativity, and humor that Jerry Garcia has. His work and life will continue to be a limitless source of inspiration for all of us. ~ Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I've seen him in, except 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Mortal Thoughts,' which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does. ~ Guillermo Diaz

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control. ~ Barton Gellman

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow
you are not understanding yourself. ~ Bruce Lee