Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. – Walter Scott
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
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott
To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Walter Scott