please define for me the meaning of success for you?

Philippines
May 20, 2012 10:44pm CST
i was once ask by my teacher before the meaning of success. is it having house and lot? being a professional? being happy? having all the things in life? please help me. thanks.
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21 May 12
Success is you can do the best things that you can do in your life. Save and useful to yourself, family, and the others.
• Philippines
22 May 12
yes! i agree with you..thanks and have a nice day ahead.
@GardenGerty (161173)
• United States
21 May 12
I would be successful if I had enough to pay my bills without worry. I am successful in many ways, and I know how to do many things. I think that is success.
• Philippines
22 May 12
being successful is being happy and being contented in the things you do.
@applefreak (3130)
• Singapore
22 May 12
to me, success means achieving what i've set out to do. it depends on what you really want in life. to me, being happy is all that i've ever wanted in life. i am lucky that it takes just little things to make me happy. a good book, a great meal, seeing new sights and spending time with my loved ones all makes me very happy. all these does not cost much yet brings an immense amount of joy. many would say having a lot of money makes them happy. however, this may not be what they really wanted in life. that's why these people are never happy, because they did not give the matter much thought at all.
@GemmaR (8517)
21 May 12
I think that the only meaning of success that you have to think about is whether you are happy, and whether you have managed to meet the goals that you have set for yourself during the course of your life. It is important to think about what you really want. If that is money then that's fine, if it's a family then that's also fine, but you have to be aware that what you want has to be what's important to you, and not what you think is important to the other people who might be in your life at that time. It is so personal that you can't think about anyone else's answer other than your own really.
@megamatt (14291)
• United States
5 Jun 12
To be success is really the achievement of your goals or at least learning something from the path that you are taking. There are going to be times where we are not going to be completely successful. But we learn something extremely valuable, that being knowledge and knowledge is in fact power. It really will allow us to get these things done. In the end, it is going to vary with us from person to person, throughout our life. What might be considered to be success to us now as well, might not be something that we want in five years. Life is rather something that is rather fickle and quite cynical. In the end, we got to find our path in life and get done what needs to be done.
21 May 12
Success for me is you're able to reap the fruit of you hard work.We have our own success in life, it may be in career, life and love. When I graduated from college I took that as one of my success in life, being able to finish my course all by myself. Some people would base their success in power, prestige, or position. Everyone aims to achieve success in life. One must have determination in achieving it.
• United States
21 May 12
I am doing what I love to do. I am where I want to be, and I am making the kind of money that I want to make, and I have security. I am happy with my life and I am happy with what I am doing. Pretty much, I have what I want and my life is fulfilled, and that, to me, would be the meaning of success. If you are right where you want to be, and you have what you need and want, then you are successful.
@CarlHalling (3617)
• United Kingdom
21 May 12
Born to success? - No; I wasn't. At least, not yet, and probably, never.
Each person would probably give you a different response to this question...:) For me, the greatest thing that has ever happened to me was accepting Christ as my Saviour; coming to saving Faith in Jesus. I wouldn't trade my faith for all the success in history. That doesn't mean though I don't desire success, because I do. When I was younger, I desperately wanted to be famous; as actor; Pop star; writer...I didn't mind, it was the fame that coutned, not the means to it. A good few golden opportunities came my way...but for one reason or another, fame; wealth; success...none were mine. Well; I achieved moderate success; as actor; and to a lesser extent, singer; writer. But while enormously satisfying to me personally, my success was minor indeed. I'm a survivor of substance abuse; and a sufferer from what I believe to be chronic, low-grade depression. However, I'm yet capable of a good deal of joy, thanks to the Lord; and for me, this is great success; I'm s survivor...again this is success indeed...and I am still hungry for achievement; success: and still young enough to try for them...success! So yes, the capacity for happiness is a form of success as I see it. But I'm neither as young; nor as healthy as I used to be...so success may never be truly mine. The thought of this makes me sad, but then, as I said earlier, I have what I really want, my faith.
• Philippines
21 May 12
Success is variable. Its meaning would depend on who is defining it. As for me, success is when you reach your goals, when you have healthy relations with the people in your life, when you are stable enough to be able to share and contribute to the lives of others. Success is when you can rest easy at night knowing that you're living your life the best way you know how, to the fullest.
• United States
21 May 12
Success is making a goal and reaching it. There are not many people who would have the same concept of success. I seriously think to be successful in like is to not have to worry about things all the time. Stability is success!