Quotes

“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“I've a grand memory for forgetting.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“The world has no room for cowards.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“No man is useless while he has a friend.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.” William Clement Stone

“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” William Clement Stone

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” William Clement Stone

“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.” William Clement Stone

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” William Clement Stone

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” William Clement Stone

“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?” William Clement Stone

“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” William Clement Stone

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” William Clement Stone

“What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?” William Clement Stone

“You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.” William Clement Stone