It's doing your job the best you can And being just to your fellow man; It's making money -- but holding friends And true to your aims and ends; It's figuring how and learning why And looking forward and thinking high And dreaming a little and doing much. It's keeping always in closest touch With what is finest in word and deed; It's being thorough, yet making speed; It's daring blithely the field of chance While making labor a brave romance; It's going onward despite defeat And fighting stanchly, but keeping sweet; It's being clean and it's playing fair; It's laughing lightly at Dame Despair; It's looking up at the stars above And drinking deeply of life and love. It's struggling on with the will to win But taking loss with a cheerful grin; It's sharing sorrow and work and mirth And making better this good old earth; It's serving, striving through strain and stress; It's doing your noblest -- that's Success! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT FLORENCE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ON LYDIA DISTRACTED; A SONNET by PHILIP AYRES MAIDEN'S CHOICE by CAROLYN M. BARBER TRENCH RAID NEAR HOOGE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN MATTERHORN QUESTS by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |