Friday, October 5, 2007

The Will To Win

How Bad do you want it? Your desire is measured by your actions.

One the most classic motivational poems
If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it
If only desire of it

Makes you quite mad enough Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it
If life seems all empty and useless without it

And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,

If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it,
Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,

If you'll simply go after that thing that you want.
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,

If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it, You'll get it!
~Berton Braley

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control,
the firm resolve of a determined soul."

Quote of the month: "Fear is an illusion; you think something is standing in your way but nothing is really there." ~Michael Jordan

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