4 Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Failure

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes on failure

17. Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

70. To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful. There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.

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.

76. The duty of a Christian is not to succeed, but to fail cheerfully.