What is Success?

“The trouble with a great many folks is that they have a wrong conception of success. Large numbers imagine it lies in mere money-making. Yet the average millionaire is not a happy or even a contented man. He has been so engrossed from his youth in piling up dollars that he has had no time for the cultivation of the higher qualities of his mind and heart, in the exercise of which the only true happiness is to be found. You may remember that Emerson said: ‘Happiness lies only in the triumph of principle.’

“Of course, a certain amount of money is a necessity, and more of it enables one to enjoy many things which would be an impossibility without it. I am not advising any young man not to do all he can in a legitimate way to make money; but, if he is successful, he must be careful to keep money his servant, and not let it become his master.

Character is power—is influence; it makes friends, creates funds, draws patronage and support, and opens a sure and easy way to wealth, honor and happiness.
—J. Hawes

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.
—Longfellow

There is no road to success but through a clear, strong There is no road to success but through a clear, strong
purpose. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of whatever sort.
T. T. Munger.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.—DISRAELI.