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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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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
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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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.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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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.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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