Showing posts with label advice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advice. Show all posts

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Post #3125

He who gives advice to a self-conceited man, stands himself in need of counsel.
—Saadi Shīrāzī: Gulistân

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Post #3112

Every man, however wise, sometimes requires the advice of a friend in the affairs of life.
—Plautus

Monday, July 01, 2019

Post #2861

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
—Francis Bacon

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Monday, March 18, 2019

Post #2786

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Friday, April 28, 2017

Post #2325

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
—Samuel Butler

Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Post #2223

I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action for himself.
—Wilhelm von Humboldt

Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Post #2222

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.
—Publius Syrus

Monday, September 26, 2016

Post #2171

It is a disingenuous thing to ask for advice, when you mean assistance; and it will be a just punishment if you get that which you pretended to want.
—Sir A. Helps

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Post #2053

Keep company with the humble, with the devout, and with the virtuous; and confer with them of things that edify.
—Thomas à Kempis

Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Post #1852

Our advice must not fall like a violent storm bearing down and making those to droop whom it is meant to cherish and refresh. It must descend as the dew upon the tender herb or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
—Anonymous

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Post #1813

Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
—H.W. Shaw

Friday, September 05, 2014

Post #1635

The worst men often give the best advice.
—Philip James Bailey


Thursday, March 29, 2012

Post #905

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes less of a shock.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Post #666

Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face. Put yourself in his shoes - so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - nothing is so self-blinding.
—Basil Henry Liddell Hart

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Post #266

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
—W.R. Alger

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Post #126

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
—Lord Chesterfield

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied...

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