Bruce Barton Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house – when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch – it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

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.

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

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

When you’re through changing you’re through.

When you are through changing, you are through.

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