For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
From Walter Scott
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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