Famous
Inspirational Poem
Rudyard
Kipling was an English poet who lived from 1865-1936.
He also
wrote many children's stories. The poem's line, "If you can meet with
Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same," is
written on the wall of the players' entrance at Wimbledon.
If
By
Rudyard Kipling
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,
Or, being
lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being
hated don't give way to hating,
And yet
don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you
can dream - and not make 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 impostors 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 you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop
and build'em up with worn-out 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
breathe 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
sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is
the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -
which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard
Kipling. "If." Family Friend Poems, https:
With
affection,
Ruben
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