<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508665" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Success</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You ask me what I call Success -<br>It is, I wonder, Happiness?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not wealth, it is not fame,<br>Nor rank, nor power nor honoured name.<br>It is not triumph in the Arts -<br>Best-selling books or leading parts.<br>It is not plaudits of the crowd,<br>The flame of flags, processions proud.<br>The panegyrics of the Press<br>are but the mirage of Success.<br>You may have all of them, my friend,<br>Yet be a failure in the end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've know proud Presidents of banks<br>Who've fought their way up from the ranks,<br>And party leaders of renown<br>Who played as boys in Shantytown.<br>Strong, self-made men, yet seek to trace<br>Benignity in any face;<br>Grim purpose, mastery maybe,<br>Yet never sweet serenity;<br>Never contentment, thoughts that bless -<br>That mellow joy I deem Success.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The haply seek some humble hearth,<br>Quite poor in goods yet rich in mirth,<br>And see a man of common clay<br>Watching his little ones at play;<br>A laughing fellow full of cheer,<br>Health, strength and faith that mocks at fear;<br>Who for his happiness relies<br>On joys he lights in other eyes;<br>He loves his home and envies none. . . .<br>Who happier beneath the sun?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aye, though he walk in lowly ways,<br>Shining Success has crowned his days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508665" data-title="Success de Robert William Service" data-description="You ask me what I call Success - It is, I wonder, Happiness? It is not wealth, it is not fame, Nor rank, nor power nor honoured name. It is not triumph in the Arts - Best-selling books or leading parts. It is not plaudits of the crowd, The flame ..."></div> </div> </div>

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