Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

It is not the destination but the journey that matters.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like bubbles in a snowstorm.

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

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.

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 Quotes part 2

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us.

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

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

There is but one art, to omit!

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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

The measure of a person lies not in the number of their dreams, but in the number of dreams they have made come true.

Man is not truly one, but truly two.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is such an incredible piece of work…

I know what pleasure is; for I have done good work and I have done bad, and I know which I prefer.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

You don’t have to do anything to be punished … except be yourself.

Adventure is not outside a person; it is within.

I am probably one of the most dangerous men alive in England at this moment.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

The truth is I had been dreaming of a hopeless love affair since I first went to sea.

I can assure you, we are all outlaws.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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