Walter Scott Quotes

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

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

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

The will to do, the soul to dare..

Look back, and smile on perils past.

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

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.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Every hour has its end.