"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it."
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"The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface."
"Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be."
"Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives."
"It is better to give than receive- especially advice."
"To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability."
"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade."
"There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument."
"Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life."
"The total amount paid out in dividends is roughly equal to the amount lost in trading and investment advice, so net dividends to shareholders are zero. This is a very peculiar way to run a republic."
"all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear"
"Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly."
"I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience."
"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise."
"Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins."
"I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons."
"The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others."
"Enjoy what you can, endure what you must."
"When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear."
"Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me"