what is success?

It’s doing your work the best your can, And being just to your fellow man;

It’s making money, but holding friends, And staying 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 staunchly, but keeping sweet;
It’s being clean and it’s fighting fair; It’s laughing lightly at Dame Despair;
It’s looking up to 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!
~ Author unknown