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 KIPLINGThe 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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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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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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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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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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