What is your definition of success?

I guess I have a different scale that i use to detremine what success is. I think that if I have learned something and applied my learning knowledge to my life - then I have been a success. My goal is to be better today than I was yesterday and better tomorrow than I was today. If I have accomplished this goal - even in a small way - I figure I have been successful in my life.

achiving personal goals in life like finishing school or quitng smoking, or losing weight.

satisfaction in your efforts...whatever i did...

I would define sucess as achieving my goals. No exactly a profound answer, but it's as simple as that to me.

The achievement of something desired, planned,or attempted . :)One of the achievement i have right now is having a satisfying job.

Living without Expectation is the success

work hard for a objetive..

I think success is being able to put aside grudges, pettiness, jealousy, judgementalness, and loving everybody friends or enemies and treating them well. Very, very hard to do, but I think that would be a successful life.

Some years ago, I would define my success by what I had. I use to be very materialist (I use to be a well known model untill 2000, earned loads of money and burned loads of it too), untill recently when I nearly lost my husband through my wrong decision of separation. It hit me and I decided to separate myself from all unecesary things (and believe me, there is loads of stuff waiting to go to charity in storage from my numerous removals), and keep only the essential. I now value much more the most important things in my life: my husband, my cats and my dog, my parents... my friends of course (I new loads of people before, but I had no friends. Only artificial Jet Setters, like I was myself, today I have met lots of nice true people, living like me, in an RV, amongst them my best friends), and FREEDOM... a new feeling I never had tasted before. Not much achievement as such, unfortunately, but a very interesting life development, and the planing of writing a book in the future...

I don't define success as in how much money one makes in life, more of what they have done with the life they have been given. Can you have money and still fit into this category yes.

My definition of success is once you have reached a point of your life a YOU ARE satisfied with the way things are in your life. To me no one else can define your success because you can be a bum but if that's where you want to be in life then you succeeded.

I'd have to agree with those who've said it's ahieving your goals. Success really has to be applied individually. When i passed one of my law exams you might say i succeeded, however my goal was to get a better grade than a simnple pass, so personally i feel like i didn't succeed. You have to achieve what you set out to do in order to be successful. I don't think success should be measured against other peoples achievements.