If

Question 1

If you can keep your head when all about you

Answer 1

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

Question 2

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

Answer 2

But make allowance for their doubting too;

Question 3

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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

Question 5

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

Answer 5

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

Question 6

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

Answer 6

And treat those two impostors just the same;

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Question 8

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

Answer 8

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

Question 9

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

Answer 9

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

Question 10

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

Answer 10

And never breathe a word about your loss;

Question 11

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

Answer 11

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

Question 12

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Answer 12

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

Question 13

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Answer 13

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

Question 14

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

Answer 14

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

Question 15

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

Answer 15

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Question 16

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

Answer 16

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!