Courage Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

16 Courage quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson’s sixteen excerpts blend literary adventure with personal resolve. His storytelling flair turns courage into a vivid, almost tactile experience for the reader.

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A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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“He recollected his courage.”

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“To flee was more than I could find courage for; but I registered a vow of unsleeping circumspection.”

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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

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“...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.”

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“Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?”

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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

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

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

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us…

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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is…

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us…

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“Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he…

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“From the bonny bells of heather, They brewed a drink long syne, Was sweeter far than honey, Was stronger far than wine.…

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The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more…

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“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,…

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“Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.”

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to…

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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…

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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds,…

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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with…

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