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 or 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 the words 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 and nerve and 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!
Si tu peux voir détruit l'ouvrage de ta vie Et sans dire un seul mot te mettre à rebâtir, Ou perdre d'un seul coup le gain de cent parties Sans un geste et sans un soupir; Si tu peux être amant sans être fou d'amour, Si tu peux être fort sans cesser d'être tendre Et, te sentant haï, sans haïr à ton tour, Pourtant lutter et te défendre;
Si tu peux supporter d'entendre tes paroles Travesties par des gueux pour exciter des sots, Et d'entendre mentir sur toi leurs bouches folles Sans mentir toi-même d'un seul mot; Si tu peux rester digne en étant populaire, Si tu peux rester peuple en conseillant les rois Et si tu peux aimer tous tes amis en frère Sans qu'aucun d'eux soit tout pour toi;