If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it,
If only desire of it
Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it,
If life seems all empty and useless without it,
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it,
Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,
If you'll simply go after that thing that you want,
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope, confidence, stern pertinacity,
If neither cold proverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
You'll Get it!!!
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it,
If only desire of it
Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it,
If life seems all empty and useless without it,
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it,
Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,
If you'll simply go after that thing that you want,
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope, confidence, stern pertinacity,
If neither cold proverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
You'll Get it!!!
Berton Braley
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