More quotes by Walter Scott

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."
"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."
"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."
"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."
"Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."