🔰'IF' Rudyard Kipling/Dennis Hopper/Phillip Glass
If you can keep your head when all about you losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for the doubting too.
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 and talk too wise. If you can dream,
but not make dreams your master. If you can think, but not make thoughts your aim.
If you can meet with triumph and disaster,
and you just treat these two imposters just the same.
Or bear to hear the truth that you've spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.
Or watch the things that you've given your life to broken, and stew,
and build them up again with worn out tools. If you can make one heap of all your winnings,
and risk it, in one turn a pitch and toss, and lose. Start again at your beginnings,
never breathe the word about your loss. If you can force your heart, and your nerve,
and your sinew, to serve your turn long after they are gone. And so hold on when there's 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, but never 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 60 seconds worth of distant run. Yours is the earth, and everything that's in it.
Which is more? You're going to be a man my son.