Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Tuesday, June 19, 2012 – Rudyard Kipling
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Tuesday, June 19, 2012 – Rudyard Kipling
“Power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages”
And
“All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.”
And
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
And
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
And
“A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.”
And
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
And
“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”
And
“San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty”
And
“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.”
And
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
And
IF
“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by 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;
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 imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!”
