If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... 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; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...
- Rudyard Kipling
More Quotes By Rudyard Kipling
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don’t deal in lies.... If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns... When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced... There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets... Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for... Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,... Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is... The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try... A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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