If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting tooIf 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 imposters just the same
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
Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it
From ‘If’ Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)