Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

—J. M. Barrie

About J. M. Barrie

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet (; 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him...

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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

—J. M. Barrie

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

—J. M. Barrie

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

—J. M. Barrie

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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.

—J. M. Barrie

Life is a long lesson in humility.

—J. M. Barrie

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More quotations tagged with “ambition”

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

—Edgar Bergen

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

—American Proverb

History

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