Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Patience is moral elasticity.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Power won't change me.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Humility is important.

The hardest thing to do when people are hurting you is to remain a decent person.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

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...