Top 25 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson of 442

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of 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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Life, Success

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Reality, Banquets

"Banquet of Consequences". Speech by Bart Chilton, Commissioner Commodity Futures Trading Commission before the Environmental Markets Association 12th Annual Fall Conference, Seattle, Washington, www.cftc.gov. November 19, 2008.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspiration, Effectiveness, Worst

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship, Best Friend, Travel

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Being Thankful, Thankfulness, Fallen

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Funny, Women

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Simple, Mind

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sympathy, Death, Memories

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage, Names, Everyday

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Becoming, Capable

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

Robert Louis Stevenson

War, Lying, Fighting

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Today, Harvest, Plant

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Ignorance, Self, Essence

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.179, BookRix

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Long, May

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sadness, Unhappy, Misery

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Understanding, Emotion, Wells

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship, Grace, Nails

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.2092, e-artnow

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Heartbreak, Truth, Lying

Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Long, Belief

Robert Louis Stevenson (1902). “The Pocket R.L.S., Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson”

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature, Heart, Men

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4945, e-artnow

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.6074, e-artnow