Dorothy Horan's Good Advice Poem by Martin Swords

Given to me by
Dorothy Horan of Tiglin
May 2006


If you think you’re beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you like to win but you think you can’t,
It’s almost certain you won’t.


If 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.


Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But, soon or late, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can!


Martin Swords
Tiglin