Value, Progress, Success

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
~ Albert Einstein

Progress is like miners’ work: it doesn’t advance as quickly as one should like, [or] as others expect.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Failure is success if you learn from it.
~ Malcolm Forbes

Undervalued, Resistance, Found

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~ Malcolm Forbes

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
~ Thomas Jefferson

The easiest thing to find is fault.
~ Anonymous

Lessening, Leadership, Courts

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
~ Malcolm Forbes

Leadership is action, not position.
~ Donald H. McGannon

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
~ Henry Waldorf Francis

Good Citizen, Education, Be Somebody

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
~ Aristotle (Etica Nicomaquea-Politica)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~ Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) U.S. journalist - editor and publisher of Forbes magazine; known for extravagant parties and colorful hobbies (hot-air ballooning and Faberge eggs).

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
~ Jane Wagner