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
teaching moving criticism
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.
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.
communication men mind
Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.
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.
athlete conceited men
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
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.