Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

Inspirational, Judge, Reap

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Yourself, Friend, Give

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

Love, Giving, Give

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Worth, Aim

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Thankful, Life, Eyes

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

Success, Often, Loved

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, Great, Move

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

Inspirational, Heart, Left

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

Down, Everybody, Late

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Good, Long

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?
Robert Louis Stevenson

Time, Fight, Why

Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Poetry, Wine, Bottled

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

Best, Friend, Find

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Marriage, Battle

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

Life, Good, Business

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.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Cannot, Minds, Quiet

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Legal, Best, Compromise

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Made, Challenge

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

Long, Before, Tell

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Wisdom, Mediocrity, Discourage

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Play, Child

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

Life, End, Become

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy, Habit, Conditions

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Great, Travel, Move

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing, Same, Though

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: November 13, 1850

Died: December 3, 1894

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