1. IF YOU THINK
    If you think you are beaten, you are.
    If you think you dare not, you don’t!
    If you like to win, but think you can’t,
    It’s almost a cinch you won’t.
    you think you’ll lose, you’re lost;
    For out in the world we find
    Success begins with a fellow’s will;
    It’s all in the state of mind.
    If you think you are outclassed, you are,
    You’ve got to think high to rise,
    You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
    You can ever win a prize.
    Life’s battles don’t always go
    To the stronger and faster man,
    But sooner or later the man who wins
    Is the man who thinks he can.

  2. DON’T QUIT
    When things go wrong,
    As they sometimes will,
    When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
    When the funds are low and the debts are high,
    And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
    When care is pressing you down a bit
    Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
    Life is queer with its twists and turns,
    As every one of us sometimes learns,
    And many a failure turns about
    When he might have won had he stuck it out.
    Don’t give up though the pace seems slow
    You may succeed with another blow.
    Success is failure turned inside out
    The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
    And you never can tell how close you are,
    It may be near when it seems so far;
    So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
    It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit

  3. RISKS
    To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
    To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
    To reach outfox another is to risk involvement.
    To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
    To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
    To love is to risk not being loved in return.
    To live is to risk dying.
    To hope is to risk despair.
    To try is to risk failure.
    But risks must be taken, because the greatest
    hazard in life is to risk nothing.
    The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has
    nothing, and is nothing.
    They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they
    cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live.
    Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves,
    they have forfeited their freedom.
    Only a person who risks is free.

  4. LUCK
    He worked by day
    And toiled by night.
    He gave up play
    And some delight.
    Dry books he read,
    New things to learn.
    And forged ahead,
    Success to earn.
    He plodded on with
    Faith and pluck;
    And when he won,
    Men called it luck.