Welcome to our collection of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes by the renowned British author and poet, Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling, born in 1865, was a prolific writer whose works have left an indelible mark on literature and continue to resonate with readers across the world. His ability to craft eloquent and meaningful words has made him an enduring figure in the realm of literature.
On this page, you will find a curated selection of Rudyard Kipling’s quotes that encompass a wide range of themes, including life, courage, wisdom, and adventure. These quotes are not only powerful in their simplicity but also versatile in their application. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for your own life’s journey or looking to add a touch of literary elegance to your projects, you’ll find Kipling’s words to be a valuable resource. Feel free to copy these quotes, pair them with images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to share with others. Explore the wisdom of Rudyard Kipling and let his words inspire and motivate you as you navigate through the diverse landscapes of life.
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. Rudyard Kipling
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. Rudyard Kipling
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling
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
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
He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. Rudyard Kipling
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs. Rudyard Kipling
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Rudyard Kipling
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling
I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. Rudyard Kipling
San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Rudyard Kipling
It’s clever, but is it Art? Rudyard Kipling
A people always ends by resembling its shadow. Rudyard Kipling
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. Rudyard Kipling
A man’s mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. Rudyard Kipling
He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Rudyard Kipling
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. Rudyard Kipling
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! Rudyard Kipling
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. Rudyard Kipling
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Rudyard Kipling
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. Rudyard Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling
Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Rudyard Kipling
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o’ mine o mother o’ mine. Rudyard Kipling
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. Rudyard Kipling
And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we’ve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. Rudyard Kipling
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. Rudyard Kipling
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours. 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
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