If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you’ll sweat for it,
Fret for it,
Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,
If you’ll simply go after that thing that you want.
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,
If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You’ll get it!
Berton Braley
appliedalliance 
While that may be true, as I read through the poem, the thought that kept coming up for me is, “Yes, but at what cost?” I believe that many people who achieve their dream are distraught at all they’ve lost to achieve it, and would pay any price to get back what they lost in the process.
Russ
Thanks for your good point Russ….I believe success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price! Julia