"IF"

[angelwinks17]

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 treated don't give way to hating,
And yetdon't look too good, nor talk to wise;

If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thought your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can 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 stop and build 'em up with warn-out 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 breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and never 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- 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 thats in it,
And which is more-you'll be a man, my son!