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 quite mad enough
Never to tire 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 you want
With all your capacity
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,
If neither cold poverty, famished and guant
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body and brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim, you besiege and beset it,
YOU”LL GET IT!
Yes! Thank you for sharing this. I work all the way through to Sunday so it couldn’t have come at a better time to remind me of WHY I’m doing this, especially when everyone’s getting ready for a relaxing weekend/summer.
Your welcome! It’s one of my favorite poems, keeps me pushing forward. Thanks for the comment!
So true!
Hey Carmen!