Success by Berton Braley - One of My Biggest Inspirations

This is a poem I had once read on an online platform, and I am so glad I bumped into that site. Without this poem, I couldn't have possibly stayed motivated. It is very difficult to continue when you see no results, but hanging onto it is the key. Many times we are just at the door of success but we don't realise it. This poem kept me going in the toughest times. I put it in huge letters on my wall.
I am extremely thankful to Berton Braley

for bringing this poem in my life.

“ 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!

Berton Braley