Success is speaking words of praise, In cheering other people's ways, In doing just the best you can, With every task and every plan, It's silence when your speech would hurt, Politeness when your neighbor's curt, It's deafness when the scandal flows, And sympathy with others' woes, It's loyalty when duty calls, It's courage when disaster falls, It's patience when the hours are long, It's found in laughter and in song, It's in the silent time of prayer, In happiness and in despair, In all of life and nothing less, We find the thing we call success. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO HIS DYING BROTHER, MASTER WILLIAM HERRICK by ROBERT HERRICK THE LAST RESERVATION by WALTER LEARNED PRO PATRIA MORI by THOMAS MOORE THE GALLOWS by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS THE BEAUTIFUL LAND OF NOD by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX THE BOBBIN-WINDER by JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH ARCHER FIAMMETT: SONNET. OF FIAMMETTA SINGING by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO |