Top 400 Rudyard Kipling Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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2. “For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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3. “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;!”

— Rudyard Kipling

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4. “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.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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5. “If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.”

— Rudyard Kipling

6. “If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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7. “Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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8. “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.”

— Rudyard Kipling

9. “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

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10. “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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11. “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

12. “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.”

— Rudyard Kipling

13. “Beware of overconcern 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.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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15. “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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18. “He travels the fastest who travels alone.”

— Rudyard Kipling

19. “We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.”

— Rudyard Kipling

20. “Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.”

— Rudyard Kipling

21. “We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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22. “I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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23. “If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it...”

— Rudyard Kipling

24. “A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling.”

— Rudyard Kipling

25. “Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.”

— Rudyard Kipling

26. “Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.”

— Rudyard Kipling

27. “My heart is so tired.”

— Rudyard Kipling

28. “Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.”

— Rudyard Kipling

29. “Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.”

— Rudyard Kipling

30. “Delight in the little things.”

— Rudyard Kipling

31. “All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.”

— Rudyard Kipling

32. “This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

34. “Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.”

— Rudyard Kipling

35. “A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.”

— Rudyard Kipling

36. “Payday came and with it beer.”

— Rudyard Kipling

37. “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.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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38. “He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.”

— Rudyard Kipling

39. “I keep six honest serving men.”

— Rudyard Kipling

40. “Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?”

— Rudyard Kipling

41. “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

42. “In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.”

— Rudyard Kipling

43. “We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

— Rudyard Kipling

44. “What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

46. “There’s no jealousy in the grave.”

— Rudyard Kipling

47. “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.”

— Rudyard Kipling

48. “However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today – human beings and Germans.”

— Rudyard Kipling

49. “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. – The Thousandth Man.”

— Rudyard Kipling

50. “Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”

— Rudyard Kipling