Words That Can Change Lives

I have always believed that words have the power to influence lives.This has been proved over and over again by the writings of many a great writers.......Here I post the poem by Rudyard Kipling which teaches us in a very subtle way , about all the virtues that we can aspire to imbibe and follow in our lives......

If you can keep your head
when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on
you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

But make
allowance for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not
be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal
in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way
to hating,

And yet don't look too
good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,

If you can
think--and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph
and Disaster

And treat those two impostors
just the same;

If you can bear to hear the
truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a
trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave
your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with
worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your
winnings

And risk it all on one turn of
pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at
your beginnings

And never breath a word about
your loss;

If you can force your heart and
nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after
they are gone,

And so hold on when there is
nothing in you

Except the Will which says to
them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your
virtue,

Or walk with kings--nor lose
the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving
friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but
none too much,

If you can fill the unforgiving
minute

With sixty seconds' worth of
distance run,

Yours is the Earth and
everything that's in it

,And--which is more--you'll be
a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling .....(Inspiration)