Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

2. So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. Lay Morals

3. The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

4. There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. An Apology for Idlers

5. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

6. An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils". An Apology for Idlers

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

8. Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasure. I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

9. REQUIEMUnder the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lie:Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me:Here he lies where he long'd to be;Home is the sailor, home from the sea,And the hunter home from the hill. Selected Poems

10. The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it? Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

11. There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. An Apology for Idlers

12. To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.