Walter Scott quotes

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.