Rudyard Kipling Heart Quotations

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!'

Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures and balances? Which is his season For laughter, forbearance or bloodshed, and what devils move him When he arises to smite us? I do not love him

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

The heart of a man to the heart of a maid- Light of my tents, be fleet- Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.

Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.

He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.

The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.