Robert Service Quotes

"It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race."
- Robert Service
(Related: Quiet, Race)

"No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is."
- Robert Service
(Related: Success, Failure, Man)

"His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full."
- Robert Service
(Related: Life, Song, Wine, Woman)

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
- Robert Service

"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
- Robert Service
(Related: Ending, Will)

"A promise made is a debt unpaid."
- Robert Service
(Related: Debt, Promise)

"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new."
- Robert Service
(Related: Fire, Friends, Open)