Top 500 Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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2. “Don’t ever confuse motion with progress.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

3. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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4. “Everyone lives by selling something.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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5. “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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6. “Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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7. “Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

8. “Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

9. “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

10. “Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

11. “Take care of each other.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

12. “You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

13. “There is nothing but God’s grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

14. “Live life to the fullest.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

15. “In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

16. “The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

18. “Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

20. “The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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21. “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

22. “That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

24. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

25. “There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

26. “Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

27. “The world has no room for cowards.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

28. “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

29. “The essence of love is kindness.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

30. “Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

31. “You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

32. “Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

33. “The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

34. “It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

35. “I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

36. “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

37. “Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

38. “We consume the carcasses of creatures with like appetites, passions, and organs as our own. We feed on babes, though not our own, and fill the slaughter-houses daily with screams of pain and fear.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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39. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

40. “You mightn’t happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

41. “An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

42. “Do not measure success by today’s harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

43. “An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

45. “Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

46. “Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

47. “Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

48. “The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

49. “Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

50. “I hate to write, but I love to have written.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson