Top 25 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson of 442 - Page 2

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Yoga, Benefits

'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'An Apology for Idlers'

The essence of love is kindness.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Marriage, Kindness

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4469, Delphi Classics

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage, Victory And Defeat, Suffering

"The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson".

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Hope, Gratitude

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.637, Jazzybee Verlag

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dog, Animal, Thinking

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, Heaven, Wealth

'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'The Vagabond'

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Entrepreneur, Cures, Parts Of Life

"The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale".

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

Robert Louis Stevenson

Heart, Hands, Long

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3717, Delphi Classics

Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Money, Heart, Mean

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Voice, Important, Worst

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.880, Delphi Classics

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Life, Goal

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “The Essential Travel Writings (Annotated Edition)”, p.281, Jazzybee Verlag

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Death, Lying, Home

Underwoods "Requiem" (1887). Engraved on Stevenson's tomb in Samoa, with the seventh line reading "home from the sea," which is a frequently quoted variant.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Funny, Witty, Political

Familiar Studies of Men and Books "Yoshida-Torajiro" (1882)

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Reading, Writing, Easy

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Beautiful, Travel, Adventure

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.248, e-artnow

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and 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 endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wrath, Giving, Brave

Robert Louis Stevenson, Roger Robinson (2004). “Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings”, p.113, Univ. of Queensland Press

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Delight, Way, Spirit

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Lawyer, Compromise

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Hate, Sadness, People

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational Life, Grace, Circumstances

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.4576, e-artnow

Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Work, Progress

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Attitude, Business, Failure

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.926, e-artnow