Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?" My father told him no,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Now, Bill, sit where you are," said the beggar. "If I can't see, I can hear a finger stirring. Business is business.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, Help us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In short, the first duty of a man is to speak; that is his chief business in this world; and talk, which… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“From that time forward, Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops. In the morning before office hours,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The supply of subjects was a continual trouble to him as well as to his master. In that large and busy class,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
