Bruce Barton
Bruce Barton
Bruce Fairchild Bartonwas an American author, advertising executive, and politician. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1937 to 1940 as a Republican from New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 August 1886
CountryUnited States of America
disease fool modern-life
My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.
world advertising force
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.
brain legs want
If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
mean order people
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.
jesus men effort
Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.
book years people
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.
freedom sacrifice men
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.
girl teenage home
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
inspirational life motivational
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
inspirational motivational inspiring
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
jesus business men
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
god character expression
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.
fear real average
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
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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.