Walter Scott Quotes

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

At last I have won the Spanish war.

To the stars through thorns.

Difficulty is our most reliable narrative engine.

I've had many setbacks.

I think at the end of the day, winning is very difficult.

Everything's a battle.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

A smooth life is not a victorious life.

They never said winning was easy.

Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win