If you want something bad enough to go out and fight for it
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it --
If only the desire of it
Makes you mad enough never to tire of it --
Makes you hold all things tawdry and cheap for it;
If life seems all empty and useless without it,
And all that you scheme and dream is about it --
If gladly you'd sweat, fret for it, plan for it,
Lose all your terror of evil or man for it --
If you'll simply go after the thing that you want
With all your capacity, strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity --
If neither sickness or pain of body or brain
Can keep you away from the thing that you want;
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