You Can

By unknown Author

    If You Believe You Can, You Can

    If you think you are beaten--you are.

    If you think you dare not--you don't.

    If you want to win but think you can't,

    It is almost a cinch you won't.

    If you think you'll lose--you've lost.

    For out in the world we find

    That success begins with a fellow's will;

    It's all in the state of mind.

    Life's battles don't always go

    To the stronger or faster man;

    But sooner or later the man who wins

    Is the one who thinks he can.

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Tackle The Thing

 

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,

But he with a chuckle replied

That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one

Who wouldn't say so till he tried.

So he buckled right in with a trace of a grin

On his face. If he worried he hid it.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

That couldn't be done, and did it.

 

Somebody scoffed: Oh, you'll never do that;

At least no one has ever done it";

But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,

And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,

Without any doubting or quid it.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

That couldn't be done, and did it.

 

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

There are thousands to prophesy failure;

There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,

The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,

Just take off your coat and go to it;

Just start to sing as you tackle the thing

That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.

                                                    Edgar A. Guest

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