Rudyard Kipling quotes

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 meet with Triumph and Disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same

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!

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, / Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; / But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, / When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; / And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. / As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back— / For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says, / Will stick more close than a brother. / And it's worth while seeking him half your days / If you find him before the other.

Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.

I keep six honest serving-men: / (They taught me all I knew) / Their names are What and Where and When / And How and Why and Who.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.

Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him.

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher—the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum.

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?

When he comes to the Great Game he must go alone—alone, and at peril of his head.

Roads were meant to be walked upon, houses to be lived in, cattle to be driven, fields to be tilled, and men and women to be talked to.

Just is the Wheel! Certain is our deliverance! Come!

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; / If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch

What else could I have done?

So we come to Paris, by river, along in November, which the French had christened Brumaire.

Take of English earth as much / As either hand may rightly clutch.

We be of one blood, ye and I.

No, Little Brother. That is only tears such as men use.

The dawn was beginning to break when Mowgli went down the hillside alone, to meet those mysterious things that are called men.

Come soon, little naked son of mine. For, listen, child of man, I loved thee more than ever I loved my cubs.