I think I can...

I wanted to share with you an extract from a poem by Walter Wintle ~


THE VICTOR 

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you’d like to win but you think you can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will -
It’s all in the state of mind.

Full many a race is lost,

Ere ever a step is run.

And many a coward fails,

Ere ever his work's begun. 

Think big and your deeds will grow,

Think small and you'll fall behind, 

think that you can, and you will,

It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you’re outclassed, you are;
You’ve got to think high to rise;
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battle doesn’t always go
To stronger or faster men;
But sooner or later the man who wins,
Is the one who thinks he can.