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...SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 22 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE FOREST MAID by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ON AN ANNIVERSARY by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE THE WHEELING WORLD by JAMES ROBERT ALLEN PASSED BY by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS DAWN ON THE HILLS (FROM A HOTEL WINDOW) by LILLIAN ATCHERSON |