If Lyrics - Primary Elements - Six Elements

If you can keep your head when all about you 

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, 

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you. 

But make allowance for their doubting too; 

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting 

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies. 

Or being hated, don't give way to hating 

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise 

If 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 impostors just the same; 

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken 

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools 

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken 

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; 

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; 

If you can force your heart, your nerve, your sinew 

To serve your turn long after they are gone 

And so hold on when there is nothing in you 

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, 

If 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 everything that's in it, 

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!