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

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.. BILL COSBY

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.. CAROLYN WELLS

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.. ERICA JONG

Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest. message to Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 16, 1901. MARK TWAIN

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.. ALBERT SCHWEITZER

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

Do-so is more important than "say-so.". PETE SEEGER

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Go put your creed into the deed, Nor speak with double tongue.. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.. AGATHA CHRISTIE

Good things, when short, are twice as good.. GRACIÁN

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

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. 13th century. ALFONSO THE WISE (ATTRIBUTED)

He only profits from praise who values criticism.. HEINRICH HEINE

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.. FRANCIS BACON

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.. RABINDRANATH TAGORE

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

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.. HARRY S TRUMAN

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

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

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.. ALBERT CAMUS

If better were within, better would come out.. THOMAS FULLER

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

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.. MARCUS AURELIUS

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.. ROBERT FROST

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.. SAMUEL SMILES

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.. AESCHYLUS

It takes a village to raise a child.. AFRICAN PROVERB

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 bring.. OSCAR WILDE

Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.. AMELIA EARHART

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

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.. RAMONA L. ANDERSON

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.. ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.. ANNA QUINDLEN

Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha. THOMAS JEFFERSON

Take it easy -- but take it.. WOODY GUTHRIE

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

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

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.. ADLAI STEVENSON

Whatever advice you give, be brief.. HORACE

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.. RALPH WALDO EMERSON (PROBABLY ERRONEOUSLY)

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, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole. in Little Women. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.. RALPH WALDO EMERSON