Rudyard Kipling's Quotes you need to Know before 50
If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs, and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself, when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds, what they should be.
Not all the books on all the shelves, but what the teachers are themselves.
If you can dream, and not make dreams your master.
If you can meet success and failure, and treat them both as imposters,
then you are a balanced man, my son.
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.
If you can wait, and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies.
Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
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.
If, history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug, used by mankind.
He travels the fastest, who travels alone.
We're all islands, shouting lies to each other, across seas of misunderstanding.
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug, known to humanity.
Beware of over-concern 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.
Oh East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
Let each man, be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself,
on the terms that I willed.
Keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs, and blaming it on you.
Never look backwards, or you'll fall down the stairs.
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men, in the world.
Those that stay at home, and those that do not.
A woman's guess, is much more accurate, than a man's certainty.
In the jungle, life and food, depend on keeping your temper.
Be slow to judge, for we know little of what has been done, and nothing of what has been, resisted.
He who can reach a child's heart, can reach the world's heart.
All the money in the world, is no use to a man or his country,
if he spends it as fast, as he makes it.
All he has left is his bills, and the reputation for being a fool.
We have forty million reasons, for failure, but not a single excuse.
Believe the best, of everybody.
I always prefer to believe, the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Nations 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.
Cat said, I am not a friend, and I am not a servant.
I am the cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your cave.
Take everything, you like seriously, except yourselves.
I've just read that I am dead.
Don't forget to delete me, from your list of subscribers.
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core,
it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
A brave heart, and a courteous tongue.
They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling.