Robert Louis Stevenson quotes and words of wisdom

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

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others."
Found in the topic Courage.

"The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying."
Found in the topic Saint.

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
Found in the topic Cruel.

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock in a thunderstorm."
Found in the topic Quiet.

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

"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."
Found in the topic Action.

"The world is so full of a number of things; I am sure we should all be as happy as kings."
Found in the topic Happiness.

"O Leerie, I"ll go round at night and light the lamps with you."
Found in the topic Night.

"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords."
Found in the topic Word.

"Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week."
Found in the topic Doctor.

"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."
Found in the topic Soul.

"Don"t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
Found in the topic Dogma.

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

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us."
Found in the topic Gossip.

"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed."
Found in the topic Garden.

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
Found in the topic Duty.

"That a man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth"s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had."
Found in the topic Respect.

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Found in the topic Politics.

"Wine is bottled poetry."
Found in the topic Poetry.

Interesting Quotes

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.Andre Malraux - French author & resistance leader (1901 - 1976)