Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Rudyard Kipling (English - Writer)

 

December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936

 

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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

 

 

 

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

 

 

 

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

 

 

 

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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.