[00:11.27]If you can keep your head when all about you
[00:14.05]Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
[00:17.43]If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
[00:21.47]But make allowance for their doubting too;
[00:24.66]If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
[00:28.79]Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
[00:32.70]Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
[00:37.87]And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
[00:42.04]If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
[00:46.14]If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
[00:51.00]If you can meet with triumph and disaster
[00:54.33]And treat those two impostors just the same;
[00:57.56]If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
[01:00.70]Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
[01:03.87]Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
[01:07.21]And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;
[01:11.24]If you can make one heap of all your winnings
[01:14.07]And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
[01:17.68]And lose, and start again at your beginnings
[01:21.27]And never breathe a word about your loss;
[01:24.99]If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
[01:28.72]To serve your turn long after they are gone,
[01:32.69]And so hold on when there is nothing in you
[01:36.27]Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
[01:41.16]If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
[01:44.90]Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
[01:48.23]If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
[01:52.01]If all men count with you, but none too much,
[01:56.12]If you can fill the unforgiving minute
[01:58.43]With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
[02:01.46]Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
[02:04.53]And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!
