There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way. It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or power he still is a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.