![]() If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew If you can make one heap of all your winningsĪnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,Īnd lose, and start again at your beginningsĪnd never breathe a word about your loss Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,Īnd stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools Twisted by knaves (dishonest people) to make a trap for fools, ![]() If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken If you can meet with triumph and disasterĪnd treat those two impostors just the same If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim If you can dream-and not make dreams your master ![]() Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,Īnd yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,īut make allowance for their doubting too If you can keep your head when all about you I have always liked the poem and I support the values, principles and virtues that are contained in it. ![]() In a 1995 BBC opinion poll, “If“ by Rudyard Kipling was voted the United Kingdom’s favourite poem. ![]()
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