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Success 
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 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!
| About
Berton Braley (1882-1966) |
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Braley was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He inherited his father's talent in writing and had shown his talent at even at a young age. At 11 he published his first work - a fairy tale called "Why The Grass Is Green". Braley was considered a person who is always optimistic and held the belief that everything is possible. At high school he played football and finished high school in two years instead of the normal three. Something that his teacher want him to believe to be impossible. In his life Braley had written around 11,000 verses and several hundered short stories, making him one of the most widely read American poet of his era. |
