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1 " Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. "
― Anne Frank
2 " People who actually have good advice seldom give it voluntarily, instead others seek them out for it. They do not shove it down people's throats just to boost their exaggerated sense of importance. "
3 " This is one of the subtle things to be understood. We are always wise if we have to advise others but when we are in the same trap, with the same problem, the same crisis, we are not so wise. If somebody else comes to you with a problem, you will give him good advice and the advice may be right. But if you have the same problem you will not be able to give yourself the same advice. Why? Because when it is somebody else’s problem you are detached. "
― Osho , When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
4 " Her anger, so useful just moments before, was getting the better of her now. She could hear it; she was too loud. Nira had counseled her again and again on the importance of holding her tongue and her peace. Ironic, given the source, but good advice all the same. "
― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)
5 " How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. "
― Anne Frank , The Diary of a Young Girl
6 " When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. "
― Al Franken
7 " I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow. "
― Holly Lisle , The Silver Door (Moon & Sun, #2)
8 " It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
9 " ... good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive. "
10 " The advice he reads in Ann Landers – good advice as long as you don’t need it, perfectly sensible as long as you don’t have any use for it. "
11 " Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out. "
― , Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
12 " ... only a country to which people flock by the thousands from all corners of the world, has the right to advise others how to live. And the country from which so many others break out, across its frontiers, in tanks, or fly away in the homemade balloons or in the latest supersonic fighter, or escape across mine-fields and through machine-gun ambushes, or give the slip to packs of guard-dogs, that country certainly has no right to teach anyone anything - at least not for the time being.First of all, put your own house in order. Try to create there such a society that people will not dig underground passages in order to escape. Only then shall we earn the right to teach others. And not with our tanks, but with good advice and our own personal example. Observe, admire, then go and imitate our example, if it pleases you. "
13 " Cherchez la femme" is good advice for investigative reporters. " Follow the money" is even better advice. "
14 " The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. "
15 " Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. "
16 " Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. "
17 " I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. "
18 " To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing. "
19 " Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. "
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
