Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Strength and struggle travel together.

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I have the strength to endure it all.

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

To the stars through thorns.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Our blood don't run. Sometimes we want to. Sometimes we ought to. But we don't ever run from anyone or anything.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

This world is not for cowards.

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me.

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.