Success
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth’s beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.
By Caroline Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Stanley (1904)
Caroline Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Stanley (maiden name Anderson) was born on 25 March 1879 in Newton, Iowa, United States of America. She became a schoolteacher, a mother, and a writer. Her poem, “Success,” was written in 1904 for a contest in “Brown Book Magazine,” a publication of the George Livingston Richards Company of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. The competition was to answer the question, “What is success?” in 100 words or less. Mrs. Stanley won the first prize of $250, which she used to pay off the mortgage on her home. Caroline Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Stanley passed on at 73 years of age on 2 October 1952 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America.
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He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth’s beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.
By Caroline Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Stanley (1904)
Caroline Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Stanley (maiden name Anderson) was born on 25 March 1879 in Newton, Iowa, United States of America. She became a schoolteacher, a mother, and a writer. Her poem, “Success,” was written in 1904 for a contest in “Brown Book Magazine,” a publication of the George Livingston Richards Company of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. The competition was to answer the question, “What is success?” in 100 words or less. Mrs. Stanley won the first prize of $250, which she used to pay off the mortgage on her home. Caroline Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Stanley passed on at 73 years of age on 2 October 1952 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America.
Image shown: Photograph of a cluster of flowering daffodil plants, with long thin dark green leaves and white petal-like blossoms having yellow cup-shaped blossoms at their centers, growing at the edge of a woods of widely spaced trees with tall thin trunks, and the words, ‘Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.’
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the next article, or click or tap on these words to read “Humor And Inspiration And Learning About Failures And Successes” Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
