If you can stay the course when life’s temptations are bidding on you to heed their beck and call.
If you can dream and have high expectations, yet not mind working hard to win it all.
If you can take advice from those who love you, yet learn to make decisions for yourself.
If you can cheer as others pass above you, and put your disappointment on the shelf.
If you can smile when the odds are all against you, yet be determined to try even harder still.
If, when your foes have practically convinced you, “You Can’t!” You buckle down and say, “I will!”
If you can be unselfish and forgiving, and give thanks for everything you have received.
If you can face the challenge of living, and in choosing right from wrong, and not be deceived.
If you can keep on trying, caring, giving, and always do the very best you can.
Then you will know the greatest joys of living, and you’ll know what it is to be a man.
