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Action(s)
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Let us do or die.
-Robert Burns
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Certainty
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
-Robert Burns
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Control
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Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
-Robert Burns
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Criticism
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
-Robert Burns
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Determination
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
-Robert Burns
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Doubt
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
-Robert Burns
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Grace
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Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
-Robert Burns
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Honesty
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
-Robert Burns
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Intention
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The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley.
-Robert Burns, "To A Mouse"
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Kindness
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
-Robert Burns
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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
-Robert Burns
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Laughter
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
-Robert Burns
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Literary
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Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,
Dark despair around benights me.
-Robert Burns, Ae Fond Kiss
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The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And ev'n the rigid feature:
Yet ne'er with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange
For deity offended.
-Robert Burns, Epistle to a Young Friend, An
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Quotations
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I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
-Robert Burns
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Sadness
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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.
-Robert Burns
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Seasons
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When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
-Robert Burns
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Silence
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
-Robert Burns
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Worry
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
-Robert Burns
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Books by and about Robert Burns