Bruce Fairchild Barton Quotes

When you're through changing, you're through.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.

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

Generalities would have been soon forgotten. But the story that had its roots in everyday human existence and need, lives and will live forever. It condensed the philosophy of Christianity into half a dozen unforgettable paragraphs. The parable of the Good Samaritan is the greatest advertisement of all times.

Nothing splendid has ever been achived except by those who dare belive that something inside of them was superior to circumstance

come to feel that the voice of the

A man may be down, but he is never out.

Nothing splendid is ever achieved except by those who believe something inside of them is greater than circumstance

There are two seas in Palestine. One is fresh, and fish are in it. Splashes of green adorn its banks. Trees spread their branches over it and stretch out their thirsty roots to sip of its healing waters... The Sea of Galilee receives but does not keep the Jordan. For every drop that flows into it another drop flows out. The giving and receiving go on in equal measure. The other sea is shrewder, hoarding its income jealously. It will not be tempted into any generous impulse. Every drop it gets, it keeps. The Sea of Galilee gives and lives. The other sea gives nothing. It is named The Dead. There are two kinds of people in the world. There are two seas in Palestine.

Nothing is so powerful or so perfect that it cannot be transformed utterly by the miracle of another girl. Or another boy

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

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

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

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.