WHAT IS SUCCESS?

Success is speaking words of praise,
In 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 patience when the hours are long,
It's found in laughter and in song.

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.

Sometime when you’re feeling important,

Sometime when your ego’s in bloom;

Sometime when you take it for granted

You’re the best-qualified in the room;

Sometime when you feel that your going

Would leave an unfillable hole,

Just follow this simple instruction –

And see how it humbles your soul.

Take a bucket and fill it with water,

Put your hand in it up to the wrist;

Take it out – and the hole that’s remaining

Is a measure of how you’ll be missed!

You can splash all you please as you enter,

You can stir up the water galore.

But stop! And you’ll find in a minute

That it looks just the same as before.

There’s a moral in this quaint example:

Just do the best that you can.

Be proud of yourself – but remember:

THERE IS NO INDISPENSABLE MAN!

"We trained hard.......but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up in teams, we would be re-organised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by re-organising – and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."

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When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,

When sorrows, like sea billows roll;

Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to know,

"It is well, it is well with my soul".