If you want a thing,
If you want a thing bad enough
to go out and fight for it,
to work day and night for it,
to give up your time, 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 of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity . . .

if neither cold, poverty, famine, nor gout, sickness nor pain, of body and brain, can keep you away from the thing that you want . . .

if dogged and grim you beseech and beset it,
with the help of God, you WILL get it!"


-- Les Brown