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"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
-- Confucius

"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
-- Edward Dahlberg

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
-- Erica Jong

"Never mistake motion for action."
-- Ernest Hemingway

"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."
-- Gene Fowler

"Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
-- Goethe

"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."
-- Ivern Ball

"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
-- John Churton Collins

"Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much."
-- John Wayne

"He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it."
-- Karl Von Knebel

"Do not do what you would undo if caught."
-- Leah Arendt

"Always do right. That will gratify some of the people, and astonish the rest."
-- Mark Twain

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
-- Mark Twain

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-- Napolean Bonaparte

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

"Do what you know and perception is converted into character."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-command is the main discipline."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Just do what you do best."
-- Red Auerbach

"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
-- Roger Babson

"When in doubt, don't."
-- Saul W. Gellerman

"What you cannot enforce, do not command."
-- Socrates

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."
-- Thomas L. Masson

"Be smart, be intelligent and be informed."
-- Tony Alesandra

"Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are."
-- Vernon Howard

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."
-- Will Rogers

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
-- Will Rogers

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."
-- Will Rogers

"Live your life so that whenever you lose, you're ahead."
-- Will Rogers

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
-- Will Rogers

"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."
-- William R. Alger