Rudyard Kipling Quotes

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

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.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

And again, hast thou valued Patience, Courage, Perseverance, Openness to light; readiness to own thyself mistaken, to do better next time

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Silence is the cornerstone of character.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.