1. 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 to their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired of 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.
2. 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 have spoken,
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken
And stoop and build them up with worn out tools;
3. 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".
4. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with kings and not 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 will be a Man, my son !
--- Rudyad Kipling
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