Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes about
wisdom people ambitious
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
voice important worst
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
happiness hope gratitude
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
inspirational-love love-is garden
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
life thankful gratitude
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
pain passion animal
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
fun thinking digestion
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.
voice giving joy
And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.
harvest seeds reap
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
dream reality rocks
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
speech language willing
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
today plant harvest
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
happiness perspective entrepreneur
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.
positive trying saint
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.