1. *** Many receive advice, few profit by it.
2. *** To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
3. *** Give advice to learn from your own hidden wisdom.
4. *** We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
5. Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
6. *** Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
7. Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
8. *** Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
9. *** Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
10. *** Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
11. To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
12. *** Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
13. *** You own yourself, so if you want to do something that destroys yourself, go ahead. Just don't harm others when you do.
14. *** The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
15. *** People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
16. *** Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
17. To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
18. *** They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
19. *** The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.
20. *** Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution
21. Those who know the least obey the best.
22. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
23. People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
24. *** That which you condemn will condemn you, and that which you judge, you will one day become.
25. *** Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
26. *** If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
27. *** Man rejects, ridicules, and retaliates but God embraces, accepts, and forgives.
28. People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.
29. You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
30. *** It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
31. Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
32. *** Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
33. *** Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
34. Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
35. *** When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
36. Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
37. *** The money you make will only serve you as well as you serve others
38. If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
39. Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
40. This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
41. Fools worry; the wise prepare.
42. *** There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
43. *** The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
44. *** Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
45. *** People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
46. When I look back on all the worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
47. *** I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.
48. *** There is no way to make people like change. You can only make them feel less threatened by it.
49. *** All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward.
50. Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
51. It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
52. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
53. There are men so conservative they believe nothing should be done for the first time.
54. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
55. *** I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
56. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour
57. *** Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
58. *** If I were to say, ''God, why me?'' about the bad things, then I should have said, ''God, why me?'' about the good things that happened in my life.
59. To despair is to turn your back on God.
60. Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
61. Failure is success if we learn from it.
62. *** Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
63. History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
64. The end of a dock is not an obstacle, it's an opportunity to get on a boat.
65. ¿¿¿Don't tell other people your troubles. Half of them aren't interested, and the other half will think you deserved it???
66. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
67. No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
68. Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
69. *** In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
70. *** Friends require too much care and feeding. A large part of their diet is made up of lies and I'm fresh out.
71. Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
72. *** Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it's really no fun lying to them anymore.
73. *** They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
74. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
75. *** People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true
76. Say not, ''I have found the truth,'' but rather, ''I have found a truth."
77. Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.
78. *** Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
79. When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
80. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
81. ***Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
82. *** Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
83. There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
84. *** Liar's motto: If at first you don't deceive, lie, lie again.
85. The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now.
86. Most of us became parents long before we have stopped being children.
87. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
88. *** Children need models rather than critics.
89. *** A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
90. *** Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
91. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself.
92. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
93. *** Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
94. Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
95. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
96. *** Love gives all and requires nothing.
97. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
98. *** Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
99. *** It is foolish to belittle one’s neighbor; a sensible person keeps quiet.
100. *** A gossip goes around telling secrets, but those who are trustworthy can keep a confidence.
101. *** The wicked are trapped by their own words, but the godly escape such trouble.
102. *** Wise words bring many benefits, and hard work brings rewards.
103. *** Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to others.
104. *** A fool is quick-tempered, but a wise person stays calm when insulted.
