13/05/2026
THE POWER OF WILL
By Berton Braley
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 all that you dream and scheme is about it,
And life seems useless and worthless without it;
If you gladly sweat for it and fret for it
And plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it;
If you simply go after that thing that you want
With all your capacity, strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity;
If neither cold, poverty, famished nor
Sickness nor pain of body and brain
Can keep you away from the thing that you want;
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
With the help of God, you’ll get it.