Success, Value and Worth: What is the true measure of success?

[LightSun]

Success, Value and Worth: What is the true measure of success? What to you is defined as holding true value and worth? Do you put emphasis on attaining worldly goods?
Do you identify with power, beauty, fame and wealth or do you derive your self worth and self concept from an internal locus of control? Do you measure success based on some internal instinctual direction that is self defined?


Quote:
"Your value is not in how you look, how much you weigh, how nice your skin is, whether you have no wrinkles or cellulite. Just you being an openhearted, radiant, blessing force of love. You are the gift in itself." Kute Blackson


Quote:
"The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things, it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination and our faith in the future." Steve Forbes

 

[Coriolis]

I consider myself successful if I am able to impact the world around me in ways that promote my values. Of course, that presumes I am meeting my own needs first.

 

[1487610420]

fame & fortune

and hella bitches

 

[hurl3y4456]

I define success as the ability to alter/impact the world in a positive manner and solve problems directed toward yourself and others. Directing all your energy inward will inevitably lead to a less fulfilling life. There needs to be a balance of energy directed towards your needs as well as the needs of others. The road ahead will be less turbulent if meaningful/long term connections are made.

 

[Virtual ghost]

My evaluation is a mix of internal and external. Internal because I have standards that I want to meet and it is external because only on that way you can evaluate how much you have actually done.

There is no real success if you don't master both sides.

 

[Mole]

How we respond to failure reveals our character.

 

[Lark]

Indie said it was fortune and glory.

I do not have an answer to this one, the best thing I can imagine has something to do with resisting injustice and despair with my last breath, melodramatic I know, but there is good and evil. A life of impeding evil, even in a minor way, is worthwhile.

Edit: Neutral Good Cleric

 

[Mole]

The world is moving from the lower class to the middle class, particularly in Asia. So for most of us in the world, success is being socially mobile upwards into the middle class. Idealism doesn't cut it.

 

[Lib]

Immortality spoken like a true villain

 

[rav3n]

To distance myself from the shallow material trappings of society. It disgusts me.

 

[Lark]

I dont know if anyone has been up to Highlander's house, or should I say one of his international safe house mansions, but the rumour is that the guest toilets, which are not even the best toilets in the house, are solid gold, not even gold plate but solid gold.