3 Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Effort

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes on effort

23. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. And even if death catch people, like an open pitfall, and in mid-career, laying out vast projects, and planning monstrous foundations, flushed with hope, and their mouths full of boastful language, they should be at once tripped up and silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas?

73. Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: - surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.

75. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.