Quotes by Robert W. Service

“There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still;So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.They range the field and rove the flood, And they clim...”

“I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins --The other kind don't matter.”

“Theres gold, and its haunting and haunting; Its luring me on as of old; Yet it isnt the gold that Im wanting So much as just finding the gold. Its the great, big, broad land way up yonder, Its the ...”

“Have you suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down, yet grasped at glory,Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole? 'Done things' just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story,Seeing thr...”

“Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.”

“There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold;The Northern Lights have seen queer sig...”

“No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.”

“Of Books and Scribes there are no end:This Plague--and who can doubt it?Dismays me so, I've sadly pennedAnother book about it.”

“The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire”

“A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.”

“Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wantingSo much as just finding the gold.It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,It's the forests where silence has lease;It's the beauty that thrills me with w...”

“A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hu...”

“Its the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”

“Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.”

“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ”

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

“It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”

“This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive.”

“Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.”

“It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.”