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

"I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards."
— Rudyard Kipling

"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 60 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: A Father's Advice to His Son)

"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: A Father's Advice to His Son)

"For the female of the species is more deadly than the male."
— Rudyard Kipling

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble"
— Rudyard Kipling

"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."
— Rudyard Kipling

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

"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."
— Rudyard Kipling

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. 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

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book)

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."
— Rudyard Kipling

"The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him."
— Rudyard Kipling

"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
— Rudyard Kipling

"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.

"
— Rudyard Kipling

""Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie."

"
— Rudyard Kipling

"And the first rude sketch that the world has seen
was joy to his mighty heart
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves
'It's pretty, but is it art?'"
— Rudyard Kipling

"Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."
— Rudyard Kipling

"You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance."
— Rudyard Kipling (The Light That Failed)

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

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

"When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was. "
— Rudyard Kipling

"The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see." "
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Books)

"These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man."
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Books)

"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 imposters just the same;

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: A Father's Advice to His Son)

"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don’t count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages"
— Rudyard Kipling

"As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!"
— Rudyard Kipling

"I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains -
I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.
I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane;
I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs.
I will go out until the day, until the morning break -
Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress;
I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!"
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Books)

"We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the Universe.
"
— Rudyard Kipling

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same."
— Rudyard Kipling

"My heart is so tired"
— Rudyard Kipling

"Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted."
— Rudyard Kipling (Plain Tales from the Hills)

"Jika anda mampu berkepala dingin saat sekeliling anda kehilangan akal dan menyalahkan anda,

Jika anda bisa percaya diri saat orang lain meragukan anda, tetapi memperhatikan juga keraguan mereka,

Jika anda bisa menunggu tanpa jemu dan tidak membalas kebohongan dengan kebohongan, atau kebencian dengan kebencian,

Jika anda bisa tahan mendengar kebenaran yang anda katakan diplintir oleh orang licik untk mempengaruhi orang-orang bodoh, atau melihat jerih payah anda dihancurkan, tapi gigih bertahan membangunnya kembali dengan peralatan yang morat marit,

Jika anda bisa bergaul dengan rakyat jelata tanpa menjadi kampungan, dan dengan raja-raja tanpa menjadi sombong,

Jika lawan mau pun kawan tidak bisa merusakkan anda, maka anda adalah sungguh manusia sejati."
— Rudyard Kipling

"You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?"
— Rudyard Kipling

"'It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?'
'Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.'"
— Rudyard Kipling (Kim)

"Outsong in the Jungle

[Baloo:] For the sake of him who showed
One wise Frog the Jungle-Road,
Keep the Law the Man-Pack make
For thy blind old Baloo's sake!
Clean or tainted, hot or stale,
Hold it as it were the Trail,
Through the day and through the night,
Questing neither left nor right.
For the sake of him who loves
Thee beyond all else that moves,
When thy Pack would make thee pain,
Say: "Tabaqui sings again."
When thy Pack would work thee ill,
Say: "Shere Khan is yet to kill."
When the knife is drawn to slay,
Keep the Law and go thy way.
(Root and honey, palm and spathe,
Guard a cub from harm and scathe!)

Wood and Water, Wind and Tree,
Jungle-Favour go with thee!

[Kaa:] Anger is the egg of Fear--
Only lidless eyes see clear.
Cobra-poison none may leech--
Even so with Cobra-speech.
Open talk shall call to thee
Strength, whose mate is Courtesy.
Send no lunge beyond thy length.
Lend no rotten bough thy strength.
Gauge thy gape with buck or goat,
Lest thine eye should choke thy throat.
After gorging, wouldst thou sleep ?
Look thy den be hid and deep,
Lest a wrong, by thee forgot,
Draw thy killer to the spot.
East and West and North and South,
Wash thy hide and close thy mouth.
(Pit and rift and blue pool-brim,
Middle-Jungle follow him!)

Wood and Water, Wind and Tree,
Jungle-Favour go with thee!

[Bagheera:] In the cage my life began;
Well I know the worth of Man.
By the Broken Lock that freed--
Man-cub, ware the Man-cub's breed!
Scenting-dew or starlight pale,
Choose no tangled tree-cat trail.
Pack or council, hunt or den,
Cry no truce with Jackal-Men.
Feed them silence when they say:
"Come with us an easy way."
Feed them silence when they seek
Help of thine to hurt the weak.
Make no bandar's boast of skill;
Hold thy peace above the kill.
Let nor call nor song nor sign
Turn thee from thy hunting-line.
(Morning mist or twilight clear,
Serve him, Wardens of the Deer!)

Wood and Water, Wind and Tree,
Jungle-Favour go with thee!

[The Three:] On the trail that thou must tread
To the threshold of our dread,
Where the Flower blossoms red;
Through the nights when thou shalt lie
Prisoned from our Mother-sky,
Hearing us, thy loves, go by;
In the dawns when thou shalt wake
To the toil thou canst not break,
Heartsick for the Jungle's sake;
Wood and Water, Wind air Tree,
Wisdom, Strength, and Courtesy,
Jungle-Favour go with thee!

"
— Rudyard Kipling

"Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;
But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!"
— Rudyard Kipling

"Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood"
— Rudyard Kipling

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."
— Rudyard Kipling

"If you can keep your head when all about you..........."
— Rudyard Kipling

"'They are fools who kiss and tell'--
Wisely has the poet sung.
Man may hold all sorts of posts
If he'll only hold his tongue."
— Rudyard Kipling

"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" "
— 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

""If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs..""
— Rudyard Kipling

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they."
— Rudyard Kipling

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

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it save so much time."
— Rudyard Kipling

""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."
— Rudyard Kipling (If: A Father's Advice to His Son)

"" If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it...""
— Rudyard Kipling

"[A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]
'And I come here alone. For five--seven--eighteen--forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry....'
'So it comes with all faiths.'"
— Rudyard Kipling (Kim)