Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.

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

The world is so full of a number of things Im sure we should all be as happy as kings.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

The essence of love is kindness.

Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.

If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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.

Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.