Quotes by Scottish/Scotland authors (page 6)

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world"

"Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness"

"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"No violent extreme endures"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Be not a slave of words"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve"

Samuel Smiles, Author

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Quotes by Scottish authors