Success

Success is speaking words of praise
When 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 neighbour’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 found in laughter and in song
In gentleness when things go wrong

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

- courtesy of Dorthe Djernæs
Skanderborg, Denmark