Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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

We can only know others by ourselves.

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

The essence of love is kindness.

Wine is bottled poetry.

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

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Everyone lives by selling something.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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

No man is useless while he has a friend.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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

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

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

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

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

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

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

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

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

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