Sir Walter Scott Quotes (39 quotations)
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1. All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. - Sir Walter Scott
2. And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last. - Sir Walter Scott
3. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. - Sir Walter Scott
4. For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. - Sir Walter Scott
5. He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. - Sir Walter Scott
6. He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. - Sir Walter Scott
7. Heap on more wood - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. - Sir Walter Scott
8. I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through." - Sir Walter Scott
9. If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. - Sir Walter Scott
10. If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others. - Sir Walter Scott
11. It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life. - Sir Walter Scott
12. Look back, and smile on perils past. - Sir Walter Scott
13. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. - Sir Walter Scott
14. Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. - Sir Walter Scott
15. Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving. - Sir Walter Scott
16. O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! - Sir Walter Scott
17. O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott
18. Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott
19. Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive. - Sir Walter Scott
20. Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive. - Sir Walter Scott
21. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. - Sir Walter Scott
22. One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him. - Sir Walter Scott
23. Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success. - Sir Walter Scott
24. Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. - Sir Walter Scott
25. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. - Sir Walter Scott
2. And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last. - Sir Walter Scott
3. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. - Sir Walter Scott
4. For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. - Sir Walter Scott
5. He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. - Sir Walter Scott
6. He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. - Sir Walter Scott
7. Heap on more wood - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. - Sir Walter Scott
8. I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through." - Sir Walter Scott
9. If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. - Sir Walter Scott
10. If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others. - Sir Walter Scott
11. It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life. - Sir Walter Scott
12. Look back, and smile on perils past. - Sir Walter Scott
13. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. - Sir Walter Scott
14. Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. - Sir Walter Scott
15. Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving. - Sir Walter Scott
16. O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! - Sir Walter Scott
17. O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott
18. Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott
19. Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive. - Sir Walter Scott
20. Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive. - Sir Walter Scott
21. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. - Sir Walter Scott
22. One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him. - Sir Walter Scott
23. Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success. - Sir Walter Scott
24. Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. - Sir Walter Scott
25. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. - Sir Walter Scott
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