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Francis Bacon, sr.:
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

 

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

 

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

 

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Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

 

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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

 

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Good things, when short, are twice as good.

 

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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

 

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He only profits from praise who values criticism.

 

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle 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.

 

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Whatever advice you give, be brief.

 

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A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.



Karl Barth:

 

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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

 

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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

 

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When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds

 

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Marcus Aurelius:
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

 

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

 

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Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the

 

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Never play cards with any man named "Doc."
Never eat at any place called "Mom's."
And never, never, no matter what else you

 

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can

 

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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.