If....
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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 of waiting,
or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
or being hated, don't give way to hating,
and yet don't talk too good nor talk too wise;
If you can dream and not make your dreams your master,
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
and treat those two imposters just the same,
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things that you gave your life to broken,
and stoop and build them up with wornout tools,
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings
and never breath 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 you
except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sexty seconds' of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
and - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
by Rudyard Kipling -
Kipling was a great wordsmith wasn't he?
however, one of the things i printed out before and hung up in my office and has since been taken down is this:- If you can stay calm when all around you is chaos, it's just that you have not realised the gravity of the situation.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
i beg to differ!!!it cud be that i jux dun give a flying F#@K!!!lol
Kipling was a great wordsmith wasn't he?
however, one of the things i printed out before and hung up in my office and has since been taken down is this:
[b]- If you can stay calm when all around you is chaos, it's just that you have not realised the gravity of the situation.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
Can't agree with you more about the penmanship yeah!
Kipling was a great wordsmith wasn't he?
however, one of the things i printed out before and hung up in my office and has since been taken down is this:
[b]- If you can stay calm when all around you is chaos, it's just that you have not realised the gravity of the situation.
hmmm... can't agree with the quote tho or is it just denial??