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've lost,
For out in the world you find
Success begins with the will,
Its 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 think of yourself before
You can ever win the prize!
Full many a race is lost
Before ever a step is run;
And many a coward fails,
Before 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!
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can!
- Author Unknown