Bruce Fairchild Barton Quotes

• 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 Fairchild Barton

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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Tags in Advertiser, National

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

  Bruce Fairchild Barton

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Hope

• Conceit is God’s gift to little men.

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

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  Tags in World, Men

• No s*x, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

  Bruce Fairchild Barton

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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.

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  Tags in World, Man

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

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  Tags in Men, Successful

• 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 Fairchild Barton

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Man

• If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

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• In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Valuable

• 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 Fairchild Barton

  Topics in Life

• Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that’s really the take-home message for teenage girls.

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  Tags in Thing, Worst

• Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

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• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

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

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Bruce Fairchild Barton (30)

Birth:	5th August, 1886
Death:	5th July, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Politician

About

Bruce Fairchild Barton was born in Robbins, Tennessee. He was an American author, advertising executive, and politician. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1937 to 1940 as a Republican from New York. He graduated from Amherst College in 1907. He worked as a publicist and magazine editor before co-founding the Barton, Durstine & Osborn advertising agency in 1919. Barton was most famous, however, as the author of many bestselling guides to personal success. He also wrote literally hundreds of articles for popular magazines, offering readers advice and inspiration for pursuing the American dream. His most famous book was, The Man Nobody Knows.

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