What is Success?

Another poem I came across and really liked!! Enjoy! 

 What is Success?

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by
a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived;

This is to have succeeded.

 — Ralph Waldo Emerson

2 thoughts on “What is Success?

  1. I read this a bit late. But i guess all this points apply to only one person alive today in India. He is the best president India had since Independence , he is non other than Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.. what say?

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