We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling More Quotes by Rudyard Kipling More Quotes From Rudyard Kipling The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling clever men needs I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling life-lesson kindness inspirational Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. Rudyard Kipling learning looks fall If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son. Rudyard Kipling success-and-failure men son Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. Rudyard Kipling doubt fear He who faces no calamity gains no courage. Rudyard Kipling calamity gains faces Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted. Rudyard Kipling india sun God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all. Rudyard Kipling heart love men The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. Rudyard Kipling lovely care world You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. Rudyard Kipling climate worry mean 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 soldier prayer war Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice. Rudyard Kipling sacrifice humble 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 army cutting thank-you Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels. Rudyard Kipling tin wheels littles Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies. Rudyard Kipling politics pet dog There is no sin greater than ignorance. Rudyard Kipling greater sin ignorance We never pay anyone Dane-geld, Rudyard Kipling cost games play Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. Rudyard Kipling triumph theatre losing 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 money men country it's always best to tell the truth. Rudyard Kipling telling-the-truth
