Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

43 Famous Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”
Health Quotes
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
Travel Quotes
“Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
Burden Quotes
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
Politics / government Quotes
“To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.”
Age Quotes
“Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.”
Christianity Quotes
“Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.”
Christianity Quotes
“A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.”
Friendship Quotes
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.”
Courage Quotes
“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
Life Quotes
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Lying Quotes
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
Nature Quotes
“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
Quiet Quotes
“A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.”
Success Quotes
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Travel Quotes
“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
Weakness Quotes
“Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.”
Wife Quotes
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