Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Walter Scott

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

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

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Walter Scott

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.
Walter Scott

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

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
Walter Scott

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

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Walter Scott

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

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

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Walter Scott

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott

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