State of Mind

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 sure you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost,
For out in the world you find success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.

OR

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you’d like to win but think you can’t,
It’s almost certain you won’t.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

Walter D.Wintle