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 Truman

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson

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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. Anne Tyler

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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. Hannah Smith

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There is only one thing that will really train the human mind and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the man himself. You may aid him, you may guide him, you may suggest to him, and, above all else, you may inspire him. But the only thing worth having is that which he gets by his own exertions, and what he gets is in direct proportion to what he puts into it. Albert Lowell

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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. Sidney Harris

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When someone gives you advice, listen. Be friendly and respectful. But before you take their advice, consider how it has worked for them. Wiley Pickering

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All of the best advice in the world will only help you if you can motivate yourself to take persistent, continuous action in the direction of your goals until you succeed. Brian Tracy

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller

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Wall Street is the only place people ride to in a Rolls-Royce to get advice from people who ride the subway. Warren Buffett

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If you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable. Randy Pausch

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When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it. Scott Adams

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The first thing that any education ought to give a man is character, and the second thing is education. That is where I'm a little skittish about this college business. I'm not starting in to preach to you, because I know a young fellow with the right sort of stuff in him preaches to himself harder than any one else can, and that he's mighty often switched off the right path by having it pointed out to him in the wrong way. George Horace Lorimer

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Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you’re ready to act, and then you won't need it. George Horace Lorimer

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Passionate people who fail don't get a chance to offer their advice to the rest of us. Scott Adams

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Find three hobbies: one that makes you money, one that makes you fit, and one that makes you smarter. Naval Ravikant

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