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Bruce Barton
American
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About the author
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.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Life
#Nothing
#Family
#Home
#Man
When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
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,
American
Author
#Sacrifice
#Will
#World
#Liberty
#Men
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Hope
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Teaching
#Observation
#Preparation
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Consequences
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Work
#Faith
#Importance
#Sincerity
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Eating
#Girls
#Teenage
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Man
#Necessity
#Age
#Modesty
#Sex
#Rank
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Successful
#Men
#Opportunity
#Talent
When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#World
#Men
#Business
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,
American
Author
#World
#Man
#Progress
#Loneliness
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,
American
Author
#Life
In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Want
#People
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.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Will
#World
#Living
#Expression
#Personality
#Divinity
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Enthusiasm
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#God
#Men
#Conceit
Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Day
#Eating
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.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Action
#Hope
#Fear
#Vision
#Living
#Change
#Progress
#Error
When you're through changing, you're through.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
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,
American
Author
#Life
#Christ
#Day
#Today
#Thought
#Business
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton,
American
Author
#Nothing
#Circumstance