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Top 25 Robert W. Service Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert W. Service Quote: “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”

1. “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”

— Robert W. Service

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Robert W. Service Quote: “A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

2. “A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest; Their’s is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don’t know how to rest.”

3. “There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest; Their’s is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don’t know how to rest.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.”

4. “This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”

5. “It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.”

6. “Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “Our breath is brief, and being so Let’s make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.”

7. “Our breath is brief, and being so Let’s make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer;.”

8. “Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer;.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death’s shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.”

9. “I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death’s shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.”

— Robert W. Service

Robert W. Service Quote: “Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.”

10. “Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.”

11. “Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.”

12. “Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.”

13. “Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.”

14. “The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.”

15. “Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that’s dead, In the glare of the truth at last.”

16. “And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that’s dead, In the glare of the truth at last.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.”

17. “His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life – to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one’s neighbors.”

18. “I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life – to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one’s neighbors.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.”

19. “The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There’s where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.”

20. “The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There’s where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.”

21. “I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “On the ragged edge of the world I’ll roam. And the home of the wolf will be my home.”

22. “On the ragged edge of the world I’ll roam. And the home of the wolf will be my home.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter’s chime Will ring the curtain down on you.”

23. “Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter’s chime Will ring the curtain down on you.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.”

24. “No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire.”

25. “The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.”

26. “I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.”

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Robert W. Service Quote: “Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don’t by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.”

27. “Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don’t by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.”

— Robert W. Service

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