Rudyard Kipling Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.

Habit is necessary to give power.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

When you get that person out of that dude, that's the real person, you know. And I don't think its dead, but it needs to be more examples, of what a true gentleman and what a true man in every sense of the word is, and that's what I try to be.