Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNot getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
-
-
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
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 KIPLING -
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
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.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
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.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
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.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
RUDYARD KIPLING






