If — Rudyard KiplingIf you can keep your head when all about youAre 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 trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too; Their suspicion is justifiable; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
If you are willing to wait patiently and not be impatient, Or
being lied about
don't deal in lies
Or being slandered but not retaliate, Or
being hated
don't give way to hating
p>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 DisasterAnd treat those o impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted 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 worn-out tools; or watching a career built with hard work collapse, but still enduring the humiliation and bearing down on the ground to climb back up; If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss
If you dare to risk all your victories for a more noble goal, And lose
and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe 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 youExcept the Will which says to them:"Hold on";If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Talk to commoners without showing humility, Or walk with kings - nor lose the mon touch; Or walk with princes without showing flattery; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; Cause harm; If all men count with you
but none too much; If you can fill the unfiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run -If you If you can cherish time like gold and make use of every unrecoverable minute; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
Then your cultivation will be as broad as the world and you will have your own World, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! What's more important is: child, you have become a truly upright person!
Reference: big5.cri/gate/big5/gb.cri/33160/2010/07/13/4925s2918291