Quotes by Scottish Authors - Page 2

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
Robert Burns
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.
Robert Louis Stevenson
They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.
Samuel Smiles
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
Fear is faithlessness.
George MacDonald
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.
George MacDonald
You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Speech is silvern silence is golden.
Thomas Carlyle
Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.
Thomas Carlyle
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
David Hume
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Thomas Campbell
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.
Robert Burns
Temptations come as a general rule when they are sought.
Margaret Oliphant
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.
Mary Garden
I hope to work support my children and die quietly without pain.
Sean Connery
God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.
Robert Burns
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.
Robert Burns
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.
Alexander Smith
Give me but one hour of Scotland Let me see it ere I die.
Wiluam E. Aytoun
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
Every noble crown is and on Earth will forever be a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Alexander Smith
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.
Thomas Carlyle
The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Of all the paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path ... a thing which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.
Thomas Carlyle
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
Thomas Carlyle
His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.
Thomas Carlyle
When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.
William Drummond
The public! why the public's nothing better than a great baby.
Thomas Chalmers
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.
Thomas Carlyle
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor a fast flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
William Knox
In durance vile here must I wake and weep And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
James Drummond Burns
If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.
George Buchanan
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!
James Drummond Burns
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.
Alexander Whyte
Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Oswald Chambers
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.
Oswald Chambers
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
Oswald Chambers
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
Oswald Chambers
Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.
Oswald Chambers
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
Oswald Chambers