Bruce Barton
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Love is a verb.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
We rob banks.
Always do the right thing.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
You had me at hello.
Love those who love you.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
I am the captain of my soul.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Live life to the fullest.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
All you need is love.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
The best way out is always through.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
As physicians, we are invited into the most intimate chambers of our patients’ lives. We should acknowledge that unfettered trust with dignity, deference, and respect. For a physician, caring for patients is not only a duty; it is a privilege. Alleviating pain and restoring health for another human being can induce an exhilaration few others experience in their careers.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.