Will

If you think you are beaten, you are!

If you think you dare not, you don’t.

If you like to win, but you think you can’t,

It’s almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose you’ve lost!

For out of the world we find

Success begins with a fellow’s will—

It’s all in the state of mind. [1]

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[1] This poem is Thinking by Walter D. Wintle.  Historical records are so bare of information about Mr. Wintle that some suspect the name is a pseudonym.