Browsing Topic Best Advice Quotes

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

You have to be odd to be number one.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow… even if that someone is yourself!

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

We should never use the truth to wound.

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

Fish where the fish are.

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can’t do that way when you’re flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can’t kill them when they’re said.

Don’t be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

My advice to young people is ask older people questions and don’t be afraid.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Never complain and never explain.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

The trouble with advice is that it’s usually something you don’t want to hear.

My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

Never take anything for granted.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.

Believe nothing,No matter where you read it,Or who has said it,Not even if I have said it,Unless it agrees with your own reasonAnd your own common sense.

My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Love is a decision, not just an emotion. It is selfless, and a commitment.

If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o’clock, when you’ve got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don’t give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.