Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Step by step, the road is long, but at the end you can touch a star.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.

When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.