Walter Scott Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.”

“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.”

“Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.”