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 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
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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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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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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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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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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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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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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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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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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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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