EQUANIMITY
If you can keep your head when everyone around you lose and you are covered with reproaches; If you have faith in yourself when others doubt you men and be indulgent to your question, If can wait and not be tired by waiting, if you can be the target of lies and not fall into the lie, and if you hated, do not return the hatred, yet do, so, not too good or too wise ;
If you can dream and not make dreams your master If you desperately think without thoughts your aim, If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat the same way those two impostors; If you can bear to hear the truth you see exposed twisted by rogues, to make a trap for fools. Or watch the things you gave life to have been broken, And stoop and build them again even with worn tools.
Are you able to put together in one bundle, all your winnings And risk it, heads or tails, in a single round and if you lose, start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about the loss. If you can force your heart, your fiber and your nerves, to obey you even after fainting and thus remain, until you have no other than the screaming will "persist, is the order!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or alternating with kings and not lose common touch. If nothing else, 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 As it contains.
And, what is more, "be a man my son. Rudyard Kipling
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