About J. M. Barrie
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...
More quotations from J. M. Barrie
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.