Walter Scott Quotes

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

I always have a reason for why I do something.

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Sentiment inspires me no less than reason.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.

Every why hath a wherefore.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.