如果你能保持头脑清醒，当你身边的人

If you can keep your head when all about you

都在失去理性而在责备你，

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

如果你能相信自己，当其他的人都在怀疑你，

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

但你也能给他人的怀疑以空间；

    But make allowance for their doubting too;

如果你能等待并且能毫不厌倦这个等待，

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

或者，被别人所欺骗，却不会去欺骗别人，

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

或者，被别人所仇恨，却不会让自己去仇恨，

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

但也别让自己看起来过于自得，别谈吐过于聪明：

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

如果你能梦想，但不要让梦想成为你的一切；

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

如果你能思考，但不要让思考成为你的目的；

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

如果你能与胜利和失败相遇

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

却能把这两个虚幻者都同样相待；

    And treat those two impostors just the same;

如果你能忍受听到你所说的事实

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

被坏人扭曲成圈套去蒙骗傻瓜，

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

或看着你给予了整个生命的事物被打碎，

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

却能弯下腰去，用已经磨损的工具再把它们修建起来：

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

如果你能把你所有的成就都堆成一大垛

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

并且冒着失去这一切的可能再孤注一掷，

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

而失败，而再来一次，而回到你的起点

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

并从没有对你的失败吐过一个字；

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

如果你能迫使你的心你的神经你的筋肉

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

在早就都没力气后还为你所用，

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,

还在坚持，在你已经里外彻底空荡之刻

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

除了“意志”，只有意志还在对它们说：“坚守下去”！

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

如果你与普通人交谈而能保持你的谦逊，

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

如果你与国王散步——却不失掉你普通人的本色，

    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

如果你的敌人和你的朋友都伤害不了你，

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

如果所有的人都看重你，但任何人对你的器重都没有过分；

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

如果你可以把无法饶恕的一分钟

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

以六十秒的距离而奔跑，

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

你的一切，就是这个大地，万物都在你之中，

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

而且——更多——那你就是个男子汉了，我的儿子！

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