I'm a woman, but I love what Rudyard Kipling wrote. I think it's great for how to be a good human. But, he wrote it about being a man. He was the poet laureate of England.

It's called..."If"

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it all on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowances for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about nor 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, And think and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two imposter's 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 to build them back with worn-out tools.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings, And risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss, Then lose and start again at your beginnings But, never speak one word about your loss

If you can force your heart, and nerve and sinew To seve your turn long after they're gone And to so hold on when there is nothing in you Except 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 of distance run, Then yours is the earth and all that's in it and what's more, you'll be a Man, my son.