What is Success?

This was a question presented to me, a simple question, but yet holds so much more meaning. I took the liberty to define, in my own words, success.

It is the strive to be the best you can be. Do you question each and every step? Or stride with confidence. Success is what many seem to think they lack, but it is that very thought that prevents them from capturing it; it is the dauntlessness in us to reach every goal with full effort.

So, this leaves me asking one question

What is success to you?

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Comment by Ice2642 on April 9, 2009 at 12:30am: Success can be much things, differents for any people.
The live success, the success in a project, and others.
The most important is the live success.
For may pople it is lot of gold and money
For other, won helth and no desease
For others the family happy.
etc.
But if you analise all poples, you will see that the real is the self satisfation.
I beleave the success is be Iluminated.

But the important, not is you get the success making some thing, but you be happy in the traing to get the success. if you can see this, you found the real success becouse you will have a heppy live.

BR

Comment by Andrew on March 25, 2009 at 8:12pm: Success is living to your own standards, playing by your own rules, and as a result being happy.

Comment by Christopher Stewart on March 24, 2009 at 6:59pm: I like those quotes by Earl Nightingale :

"If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful."

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal."

Comment by Ado Rey on March 24, 2009 at 5:47pm: Breathing easy. Loving life. Living life to the fullest.

Comment by Connor Bryant on March 24, 2009 at 2:54pm: For me, it's loving what I do.

Comment by dr.lono on March 24, 2009 at 2:24pm: Success is living your dream and doing what it is you love to do, no matter what the financial gain is.
When hearing this question I often think of the following Johnny Cash lyrics:

"The wealthiest person is a pauper at times,
Compared to the man with a satisfied mind"

Comment by Lee David on March 24, 2009 at 1:47pm: Love the site and great post. Nice to find other people interested in the the same topic!

I like to define 'Success' as simply 'The fulfillment of your own ambition'

In addition to my thoughts here are some great quotes from others that will add to the discussion;

Christopher Morley
“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. “

Wilfred Peterson
“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”

Jim Rohn
“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

In saying that Success itself is really hard to define as it can mean something different to everyone. The bigger question is probably... "When would you consider yourself a success?"

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Comment by Mukund Chiplunkar on March 24, 2009 at 5:08am: I like this quote better: "The criteria for success: You are free. You live in the present moment. You are useful to the people around you. You feel love for all humanity."....... H H Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Comment by kgish on March 24, 2009 at 3:37am: That's a tricky question. I wonder why it's so important to be the very best that you can. If one wants to correlate success with happiness, then striving to be better and better doesn't necessarily rhyme with being happy with yourself. Why not accept who you are and make the best of things. That to me is the essence of success.