Rudyard Kipling

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Rudyard Kipling

"I only hope the fish will take half as much trouble for me as I’ve taken for them."

- Rudyard Kipling

"They will come back, come back again, as long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls?"

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Rudyard Kipling

"For the strength of the wolf is the pack, the strength of the pack is the wolf."

- Rudyard Kipling

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

- Rudyard Kipling

"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."

- Rudyard Kipling

"The ‘eathen in ‘is blindness must end where ‘e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!"

- Rudyard Kipling

"The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack."

- Rudyard Kipling

""I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.""

- Rudyard Kipling

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

- Rudyard Kipling

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

- Rudyard Kipling

"All we have of freedom, all we use or know — This our fathers bought for us long and long ago."

- Rudyard Kipling

"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; If you can wait and not be tired by 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 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; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; 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 talk with crowds 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!"

- Rudyard Kipling

"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”"

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Rudyard Kipling

"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."

- Rudyard Kipling

"If any question why we died Tell them, because our fathers lied."

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Rudyard Kipling