Rudyard Kipling Quotes

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.

Just stay true to myself. That's not even my goal. That's what you always have to do, 'cause at the end of the day when the cameras are off and you put your phone down, you got to live with yourself, be comfortable and sleep at night with the decisions you've made so I'm just always myself unapologetically.

I don't think I can live a life of compromise. If I did, I wouldn't be able to sleep properly.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.