He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Quote by Walter Scott
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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Walter Scott Quotes
- O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
- It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
- Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
- Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
- When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
- Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
- Look back, and smile on perils past.
- One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
- Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
- A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Best Quotes
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- A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
- I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
- You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
- Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
- I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.