Motivational Poems for Success

Motivating Words to Help You Succeed

Motivational poems are another weapon to add to your arsenal of self motivation techniques. Better yet, poems often touch emotions and places within us that truly inspire, motivate, encourage, and nourish our souls. The poems here have been collected with great care. Enjoy!

The Many Sides of Success

Success

If you want a thing bad enough

To go out and fight for it

Work day and night for it, 

Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it,

If only desire of it

Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it,

If life seems all empty and useless without it,

And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,

If gladly you'll sweat for it,

Fret for it,

Plan for it,

Lose all your terror of God or man for it,

If you'll simply go after that thing that you want,

With all your capacity,

Strength and sagacity,

Faith, hope, confidence, stern pertinacity,

If neither cold proverty, famished and gaunt,

Nor sickness nor pain

Of body or brain

Can turn you away from the thing that you want,

You'll Get it!!!

Berton Braley

Motivational Poems: 2

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 neighbor's curt,

It's deafness when the scandal flows,

And sympathy with other's 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. 

Author Unknown

Motivational Poems: 3

That's Success

It's doing your job the best you can

And being just to your fellow man;

It's making money - but holding friends

And true to your aims and ends;

It's figuring how and learning why

And looking forward and thinking high

And dreaming a little and doing much.

It's keeping always in closest touch

With what is finest in word and deed;

It's being thorough, yet making speed;

It's daring blithely the field of chance 

While making labor a brave romance;

It's going onward despite defeat

And fighting stanchly, but keeping sweet;

It's laughing lightly at Dame Despair;

It's looking up at the stars above

And drinking deeply of life and love.

It's struggling on with the will to win

But taking loss with a cheerful grin;

It's sharing sorrow and work and mirth

And making better this good old earth;

It's serving, striving through strain and stress;

It's doing your noblest - that's success!

Berton Braley

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