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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAt 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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.
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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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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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If 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;!
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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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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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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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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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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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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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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