IF

“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…

If you can dream- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think- and not make your thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same…

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes not loving friends can hurt you,
Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it,
And-which is more- you ‘ll be a man-my son!”- R.Kipling