"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,
And if you'd gladly sweat for it and prep for it and plan for it,
and lose all your terror of the opposition for it
And 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
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