If [Rudyard Kipling]

<p>Watch: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOgyNfHl1U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOgyNfHl1U</a></p><p>If— by RUDYARD KIPLING</p><p>If you can keep your head when all about you   <br>    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   <br>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br>    But make allowance for their doubting too;   <br>If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br>    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,<br>Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,<br>    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:</p><p>If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   <br>    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   <br>If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster<br>    And treat those two impostors just the same;   <br>If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken<br>    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<br>Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,<br>    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:</p><p>If you can make one heap of all your winnings<br>    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<br>And lose, and start again at your beginnings<br>    And never breathe a word about your loss;<br>If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<br>    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   <br>And so hold on when there is nothing in you<br>    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’</p><p>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   <br>    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,<br>If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,<br>    If all men count with you, but none too much;<br>If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br>    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   <br>Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   <br>    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!</p>