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 KIPLINGNations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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.’
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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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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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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At 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.
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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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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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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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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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