Logo
Quote by Walter Scott
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wi

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. – Walter Scott

Other quotes by Walter Scott

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

Category:
strength
Author
Walter Scott
Read Quote

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

Category:
Dreams
Author
Walter Scott
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
best
category

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. – Thomas A. Edison

Category:
best

If you die youre completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. Im not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope Ive got. – Kurt Cobain

Category:
best

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. – Helen Keller

Category:
best

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
best

Random Quotes

The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. – Charles Francis Adams

Category:
America

I didnt want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didnt want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. – Lionel Blue

Category:
Fear

Peoples backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. – John Betjeman

Category:
Home

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as David. But I wouldnt really want to work with those people, you know? – Michael C. Hall

Category:
Imagination