DON’T YOU QUIT!

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When cares are pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit!

Life is strange with its twists and turns,
As all of us sometime must learn
And many a failure turns about,
When we might have won had we stuck it out,
Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit –
It’s when things get worse that you must not quit! – Author unknown

Dear friend, draw inspiration, as I’m doing too, from this piece today. I believe in your destiny. YOU WILL SUCCEED!

HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT?

If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night,
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it,
If only desire of it,
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it,
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you’ll sweat for it,
Fret for it,
Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,
If you’ll simply go after that thing that you want,
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,
If neither cold, poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You’ll get it! – Berton Braley