Motivational Thought

Believe and Achieve

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 never tire of it,
And life seems all and empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and dream is about it,
If gladly you’ll sweat for it,
Fret for it, plan for it,
Lose all your terror of the opposition for it,
If you’ll 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 and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body and brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and best it,
You’ll get it!

~Berton Braley