The Real Success

The word "Success" is often misunderstood. Too often, it is used in relation to one's occupation or financial status, and too rarely elsewhere:

Success in personal growth, Success in enjoying life, or even Success as a friend. These other areas are just as valid (if not even more so), and ultimately it is up to each and every one of us to define our own meaning of Success.

What does it mean to be educated?

First, those who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day by day; and those who can judge situations approximately as they arise and rarely miss the suitable course of action.

Next, those who are honorable in their dealings with all people, bearing easily what is unpleasant or offensive in others and being as reasonable with their associates as is humanly possible.

Furthermore, those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not unduly overcome by their misfortunes, bearing up under them bravely and in a manner worthy of our common nature.

Most important of all, those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves, but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober-minded person, rejoicing no more in the good things that have come to them through chance than in those which through their own nature and intelligence and theirs since birth.

Those who have a character which is in accord, not with one of these things, but with all of them, these are educated—possessed of all virtues.