Advice Quotes

Funny Advice Sayings Quotes and Quotations Collection

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... "Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation."

Adversity Quotes

Funny Adversity Quotes Sayings and Quotations Collection

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, And good in everything.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

If thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can’t you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to bprison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like cwolves for the blood of the lamb;

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Adventure Quotes

Funny Adventure Sayings Quotes and Quotations Collection

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you
may be the world An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
--G. K. Chesterton --

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain.
Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life --
facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources a
gainst the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.
--John Amatt organizer and participant in Canada's
first successful expedition to the summit of Mt Everest.--

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline
in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
--Milton R. Saperstein --

Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
--Charles Frohman ---

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.
--Helen Keller --

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly
lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure
in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger,
to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
--Annie Besant English Peace and Social Justice Advocate ---

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world
--Pierre Mac ORLAN --

Addiction Quotes

Funny Addiction Sayings Quotes and Quotations Collection



Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
--Clifford Stoll --

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
--Tallulah Bankhead --

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
--Terence --

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an
arrested development in man's moral nature.
--Thorstein Veblen --

Addiction should never be treated as a crime.
It has to be treated as a health problem.
We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country.
Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
--Ralph Nader --

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in
excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
--Clarence Day --

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men.
Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.
--Martin H. Fischer --

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be
alcohol or morphine or idealism.
--Carl Gustav Jung --

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
--W H Auden --

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
--Ann Landers --

Ability Quotes

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Ability is sexless.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

They are able because they think they are able.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Ability without honor is useless.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.