James M Barrie Famous Quotes



Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."

Life is a long lesson in humility.


James M Barrie Quotations






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"I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)"
Mark Twain

"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people."
Lee Iacocca

"While there's life, there's hope."
Terence

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.
William Orville Douglas

Satire is focused bitterness.
Leo C Rosten

Talkers are no good doers.
Mary Bertone

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Henry S Haskins

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King Jr