That's Success

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 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!



Berton Braley