If you can keep your head when all about you Ā Ā Ā Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, Ā If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, Ā Ā But make allowance for their doubting too; Ā If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Ā Ā Or being lied about, donāt deal in lies, Or being hated, donāt give way to hating, Ā Ā And yet donāt look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dreamāand not make dreams your master; Ā Ā Ā If you can thinkāand not make thoughts your aim; Ā If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster Ā Ā And treat those two impostors just the same; Ā If you can bear to hear the truth youāve spoken Ā Ā Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, Ā Ā And stoop and build āem up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings Ā Ā And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings Ā Ā And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew Ā Ā To serve your turn long after they are gone, Ā And so hold on when there is nothing in you Ā Ā Except the Will which says to them: āHold on!ā If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Ā Ā Ā Or walk with Kingsānor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, Ā Ā If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute Ā Ā With sixty secondsā worth of distance run, Ā Yours is the Earth and everything thatās in it, Ā Ā Ā Andāwhich is moreāyouāll be a Man, my son!
