Bruce Barton Quotes - Page 2

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• Conceit is God's gift to little men.

  Bruce Barton

  Athlete, Conceited, Men

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• 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

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• There are no little things.

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  Wrestling, Littles, Little Things

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

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  Men, May

  Bruce Barton (2000). “The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus”, Ivan R Dee

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• 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

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Memories

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• 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.

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  Wise, Men, Giving

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• Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.

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  Book, Years, People

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

  Bruce Barton

  Smart, Communication, Talkers

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• 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.

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  Mind Your Own Business, Great Day, Would Be

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

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  Elements, Essentials, Belief

  Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

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

  Bruce Barton

  Money, Mean, People

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

  Bruce Barton

  Modern Life, Disease, Fool

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• The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence one, so does the church. And if it encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.

  Bruce Barton

  Mean, Order, People

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• 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.

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  Failure, Grace, Style

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

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  Hope, Giving Up, Made

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• 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.

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  Freedom, Sacrifice, Men

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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

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  Inspirational, Success, Opportunity

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• 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.

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  Life, Home, Men

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• It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

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  Believe, Men, People

  Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

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• 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.

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  Humorous, Light, World

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• 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.

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  Bible, Biblical, Rose

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• 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.

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  Leadership, Business, Goes On

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

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  Cereal, Healthy, Eating

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

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  Lunch, Breakfast, Starving

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Pride, Men

  Bruce Barton (2000). “The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus”, Ivan R Dee

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