Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant
- Robert Louis Stevenson