Excellence

An excellence Poem:

Let's face it not many people spend their time doing their best to be excellent. Many people have the "get while the getting is good" or "do what I gotta do to get by" mentality. Here is my assessment of excellence through a poem not written by me. Maybe it will give people the courage to "man up" and inspire themselves toward achiving excellence and success including myself. Enjoy:

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

“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 imposters 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 wornout tools;



“If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it 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 sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept 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!

Some of My favorite philosophies:
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr

“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.” - Alex Karras

'Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.'
'Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.' ~ John F. Kennedy

“Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.” - Jose Ortega y Gasset

“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” - Confucius

"Think like an Angel, write like a Demon" - M.E.D

Peace & Blessings