Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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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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  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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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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  Men, Honor, Who Cares

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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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  Leadership, Education, Learning

  Just So Stories "The Elephant's Child" (1902)

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• Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Liars

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• 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...

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  Dream, Tired, Thinking

  "If - " st. 2 (1910)

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• We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

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  Pages, Possibility, Chapters

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  A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

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  Book, Wine, Men

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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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  Birthday, Son, Men

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• This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

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  Meaningful, Adventure, Moments

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• If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

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  Two, Want Something, Wellness

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  There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

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  Ignorance, Remember, Sin

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “ULTIMATE Collection of Rudyard Kipling: His Greatest Works in One Volume (Illustrated Edition): The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Just So Stories, Kim, The Light That Failed, Captain Courageous, Plain Tales from the Hills”, p.474, e-artnow

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• A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

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  Women, Intuition, Absolute Certainty

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Delight in the little things.

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  Healing, Delight, Littles

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• We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

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  Lying, Islands, Sea

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.44, e-artnow

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  Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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  Powerful, Reading, Communication

  Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923

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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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  Judging, Done, Littles

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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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  Unity, Wolf Packs, Jungle Book

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “The Second Jungle Book”, p.22, Rudyard Kipling

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• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

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  Mothers Day, God, Christian

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Giving, Can Do

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• No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

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  Winter, Thinking, Green

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…”, p.535, e-artnow

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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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  Travel, Home, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.5236, e-artnow

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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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  War, Men, Evil

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• If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue,
  Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch;
  If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
  If all men count with you, but none too much;
  If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
  Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
  And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!

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  Life, Running, Hurt

  "If - " st. 4 (1910)

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• Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

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  Dream

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• Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

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  Fall, Learning, Looks

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