Advisory Quotes

Most popular advisory quotes

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
— Chinese proverb

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Be not merely good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Be not merely good; be good for something.
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. - François Rabelais quote.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

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If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. - Abigail Van Buren quote.
If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

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The best things you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories. - Sydney Harris quote.
The best things you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

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The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. - Orlando Aloysius Battista quote.
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. - Sam Levenson quote.
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

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If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.

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Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.

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Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson quote.
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

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If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.

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You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

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What's done to children, they will do to society. - Karl A. Menninger quote.
What's done to children, they will do to society.

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Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.

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Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. - John Collins quote.
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

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Facing it—always facing it—that's the way to get through. Face it! - Joseph Conard quote.
Facing it—always facing it—that's the way to get through. Face it!

courage

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette quote.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

mistakes

Grow angry slowly—there's plenty of time. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
Grow angry slowly—there's plenty of time.

anger

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. - Harry S. Truman quote.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. - Philip K. Dick quote.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Never be too big to look up to someone.

admiration

You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Bailey quote.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

truth

Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lay down with a woman who's got more troubles than you. - Nelson Algren quote.
Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lay down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.
It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other. - Aldous Huxley quote.
It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and, when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you.  You cannot defeat me." - Ann Landers quote.
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and, when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you.  You cannot defeat me."

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Never dull your shine for somebody else. - Tyra Banks quote.
Never dull your shine for somebody else.

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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely, gallantly, as a splendid adventure, in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and to lose many a battle.
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains. - Paulo Coelho quote.
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.
Make sure your goal isn't just a means masquerading as an end.
Whatever you do, kid—always serve it with a little dressing.
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. - Diogenes quote.
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person—"Always do what you are afraid to do."
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

problems

If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel. - Ann Landers quote.
If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. - D. H. Lawrence quote.
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
Think before you speak.  Read before you think. - Fran Lebowitz quote.
Think before you speak.  Read before you think.

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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann quote.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

victory

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back.  The blood boils just like you put it in a pot. - Louise Nevelson quote.
If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back.  The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it...where the eye is the jury, thy apparel is the evidence. - Francis Quarles quote.
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it...where the eye is the jury, thy apparel is the evidence.
Don't be a pawn in somebody's game....  Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on. - Anne Rice quote.
Don't be a pawn in somebody's game....  Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on.
We must live as we ride; be supple, avoid checking our steed without need, hold the bridle lightly, go ahead when the wind is favorable. - George Sand quote.
We must live as we ride; be supple, avoid checking our steed without need, hold the bridle lightly, go ahead when the wind is favorable.
Why not be oneself?  That is the whole secret of a successful appearance.  If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

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Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
If by nature you are volcanoes, at least be only smoldering ones.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate—that's my philosophy. - Thornton Wilder quote.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate—that's my philosophy.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels.  The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. - Woodrow Wilson quote.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels.  The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking. - Lois Wyse quote.
If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.
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Think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people. - W. B. Yeats quote.
Think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people.
W. B. Yeats Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley

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Be winged arrows, aiming at fulfillment and goal, even though you will tire without having reached the mark. - Paul Klee quote.
Be winged arrows, aiming at fulfillment and goal, even though you will tire without having reached the mark.

aim high

Don't live high on the hog if all you have is a chicken.
To keep your marriage brimming, 
With love in the loving cup, 
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; 
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash quote.
To keep your marriage brimming, 
With love in the loving cup, 
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; 
Whenever you're right, shut up.

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If you want work well done, select a busy man—the other kind has no time. - Elbert Hubbard quote.
If you want work well done, select a busy man—the other kind has no time.

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Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
One of the best things you can do in life is to surround yourself with people who are better than you are. High-grade people. You will end up behaving more like them, and they, in turn, will get it back from you. It's like a planetary system. If you hang around with people who behave worse than you, pretty soon you'll start being pulled in that direction. That's just the way it seems to work. Who you choose to associate with matters.

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