Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

—Walter Scott

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About Walter Scott

Portrait of Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. He is known for his Waverley novels (1814–1831), which were, for nearly a century, among the most popular and widely...

More quotations from Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

—Walter Scott

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

—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

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More quotations tagged with “desire”

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.

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When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing.

—Francis of Assisi

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All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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I missed everything about my old life. I just wanted it back.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

—Richard Bach

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