If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln
Hold on
with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
Abraham Lincoln
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.
Andrew Jackson
The moment we engage in confederations, or alliances with any nation we may from that time date the downfall of our republic.
Andrew Jackson
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least.
Philip Stanhope
Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.
Benjamin Franklin
Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.
James Geary
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Benjamin Franklin
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jong
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Take this advice: know when to stay and when to get out.
Swami Raj
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, – always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Advice is generally much better received when the advisor is entertaining..
Anonymous
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
John Steinbeck
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Solon
No enemy is worse than bad advice.
Sophocles
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Karl von Knebel
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
Mason Cooley
When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck
Never give advice – a wise man won’t need it, a fool won’t heed it.
Anonymous
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Josh Billings
There is no cramming for the test of life.
Madeleine Albright
Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
Danish Proverb
Good advice is better than bad advice, if you know the difference.
Anonymous
A woman’s advice is a poor thing, but he is a fool who does not take it.
Spanish Proverb
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Albert Schweitzer
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
Al Capone
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
Andy Warhol
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin Disraeli
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli
Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
Genius, when young, is divine.
Benjamin Disraeli
Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli
Never take anything for granted.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
Bill Gates
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Bill Gates
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Bob Marley
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Bob Marley
Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.
Bob Marley
You ain’t gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.
Bob Marley
Tell the children the truth.
Bob Marley
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
Bob Marley
The authorities tell you that you mustn’t smoke herb because it’s bad for you. Yet if they catch you at it they’ll carry you off to prison. I think it’s better to be smoking herb out here free than being in prison.
Bob Marley
Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard.
Bob Marley
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Bruce Lee
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
Bruce Lee
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Bruce Lee
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Buddha
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
Charles Darwin
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Charles Dickens
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.
Charlie Chaplin
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Confucius
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Confucius
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller
The worst crime is faking it.
Kurt Cobain
If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.
Kurt Cobain
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain
It’s better to burn out than fade away.
Kurt Cobain
It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.
Kurt Cobain
Rather be dead than cool.
Kurt Cobain
Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.
Kurt Vonnegut
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
Kurt Vonnegut
When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.
Lao Tzu
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao Tzu
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu
Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
Niccolo Machiavelli
You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner’s manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
Oprah Winfrey
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar Wilde
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
Plato
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis Stevenson
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
Rumi
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
William Shakespeare
Give every man thy ear, but few they voice.
William Shakespeare
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William Shakespeare
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Socrates
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt
Speak softly and carry a big stick. You will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
Voltaire
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
Voltaire
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Norman Ralph Augustine
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Lewis Carroll
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.
Eddie Murphy
I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.
Tom Hopkin
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Arthur Helps
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor Adorno
Some of the best advice I’ve had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
Chester W. Nimitz
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.
David Zucker
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
The best advice I’ve received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
Frank Gehry
Listen to advice, but follow your heart.
Conway Twitty
My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.
Jenna Morasca
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
Franklin P. Jones
Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
Zac Efron
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Khalil Gibran
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
Winston Churchill
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard
I create offbeat advice; I don’t follow it. I rarely take third party advice on my investments.
Mark Cuban
I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
Billy Graham
The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar Gracian
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Josh Billings
I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.
Robert Kiyosaki
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Saul Bellow
Don’t give your advice before you are called upon.
Desiderius Erasmus
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
The best advice is this: Don’t take advice and don’t give advice.
Anonymous
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
William Shakespeare
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Anonymous
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.
Josh Billings
Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Wortley Montague
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Cicero
Here’s some advice. Stay alive.
Suzanne Collins
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
Ernest Hemingway
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost
The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson Mizner
In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
Hack Wilson
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Herodotus
I got good advice once. Someone said to me: ‘Live in your money rather than look at it.’
Simon Cowell
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Eden Phillpotts
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.
Anselm Feuerbach
Advice is like cooking you should try it before you feed it to others.
Croft M. Pentz
Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.
E. C. Mckenzie
The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.
Croft M. Pentz
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
Sophocles
What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
William Faulkner
If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people’s mistakes.
Croft M. Pentz
Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.
Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
Austin O’Malley
The trouble with advice is that it’s usually something you don’t want to hear.
Charles De Lint
The wisest man is he who does not require advice.
Edward Counsel
Advice is like a stranger; if welcome, he stays the night; if not welcome, he returns home that day.
African Proverb
One problem with being an expert on everything is that you cannot turn to anyone else for advice.
Gary W. Smith
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
Douglas Adams
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
Douglas Adams
A learning experience is one of those things that say, “You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.”
Douglas Adams
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
Do what you feel in your heart to be right for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
Eleanor Roosevelt