734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order - never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

There is no harm in a man's cub.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures and balances? Which is his season For laughter, forbearance or bloodshed, and what devils move him When he arises to smite us? I do not love him

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!