Travel Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

17 Travel quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson’s timeless prose turns every trek into a story worth telling. His romantic yet grounded tone invites readers to see the world as a canvas for personal legend.

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“To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.”

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to…

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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is…

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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest…

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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road…

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Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success…

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an…

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“Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one…

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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through…

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“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to…

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When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain…

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“For I think we may look upon our little private war with death somewhat in this light. If a man knows he…

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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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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