Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards. Bruce Barton More Quotes by Bruce Barton More Quotes From Bruce Barton 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. Bruce Barton bookpeopleyears The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home. Bruce Barton hard-workhomepeople If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs. Bruce Barton hikingjourneybrain Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. Bruce Barton successopportunityinspirational 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 agemensex 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 homemenlife The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority. Bruce Barton biblicalrosebible If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me. Bruce Barton greaterintelligentscience The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize. Bruce Barton faithmenlife As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. Bruce Barton advertisingforceworld 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. Bruce Barton springbelievemoving There are no little things. Bruce Barton little-thingslittleswrestling An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow. Bruce Barton businessleadershipgoes-on If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints. Bruce Barton marriagedisappointmentperfection In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith. Bruce Barton individualrunninglong Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. Bruce Barton giving-uphopemade When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all. Bruce Barton Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Bruce Barton If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton If you give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton
