Advice Quotes - Page 8

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke.

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

Wisdom most of the time takes form of advice.

Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

One is not born wise; one becomes it.

• The moon in the duckpond was full as well, and I found myself, unbidden, thinking of the holy fools in the old story, the ones who had gone fishing in a lake for the moon, with nets, convinced that the reflection in the water was nearer and easier to catch than the globe that hung in the sky. And, of course, it always is.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Be happy without picking flaws.

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.