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APPENDIX H“It Couldn’t Be Done”



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APPENDIX H
“It Couldn’t Be Done”
One of Annie Lou Hill’s (Mrs. Napoleon Hills) favorite poems was “It
Couldn’t Be Done written by Edgar Guest in 1914. With its emphasis on
Positive Mental Attitude, can-do spirit, enthusiasm, perseverance, and refusal to let scoffers and doubters dissuade one from one’s dreams and desire for achievement, this delightful verse captures in poetic form the essence of Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich Philosophy.
“It Couldn’t Be Done”
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing and he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one has ever done it”;
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing and he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.


There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin,
Just takeoff your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That cannot be done and you’ll do it.
Edgar Guest (1881-1959) was an English immigrant who arrived in
Detroit in 1891. He began supporting his family as a newspaper copy boy and went onto become a career newspaperman and radio personality who wrote more than 20 volumes of poetry. At his death, he was mourned as
“the poet of the people because he wrote popular sentimental poems about everyday family life and values. He composed some 11,000 poems during his career. (The word “quiddit” inverse, line 6, is actually “quiddity” and means “quibbling.”)
A Hill nephew came across It Couldn’t Be Done checked in pencil,
in a book titled It Can Be Done Poems of Motivation and Inspiration
more than 50 years after the book had been given to Annie Lou Hill, in, by her sister Mary.



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