Rudyard Kipling Quotes

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.

He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'

Believe the best of everybody.