01UndatedYou must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
02UndatedIf you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by 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 wiseIf 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 DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out toolsIf you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'If you can talk with crowds 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 minuteWith 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!Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
04UndatedI never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
05UndatedA DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
07UndatedThere is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain of sorrow in store,Why do we always arrange for more?Brothers & Sisters, I bid you bewareOf giving your heart to a dog to tear.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
09UndatedI have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
10UndatedAt two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
12UndatedWhat is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
13Undated(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
14UndatedWe have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
15UndatedBody and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
16UndatedI always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much troubleRudyard Kipling / quote ↗
17UndatedMad! Quite mad!' said Stalky to the visitors, as one exhibiting strange beasts. 'Beetle reads an ass called Brownin', and M'Turk reads an ass called Ruskin; and-' 'Ruskin isn't an ass,' said M'Turk. 'He's almost as good as the Opium-Eater. He says we're "children of noble races, trained by surrounding art." That means me, and the way I decorated the study when you two badgers would have stuck up brackets and Christmas cards. Child of a noble race, trained by surrounding art, stop reading or I'll shove a pilchard down your neck!Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
18UndatedOf all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
19UndatedThere is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
20UndatedIf 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 60 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.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
21UndatedThere is but one task for all --One life for each to give.What stands if FreedomRudyard Kipling / quote ↗
23UndatedI had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.Rudyard Kipling / quote ↗
