What is the best advice you have ever received?

jabraham326

jabraham326

Something to ponder while you puff…  What is the best advice you have ever received?

JamesH71

As I'm sitting here enjoying a bowl after a long day of prep for the quickly approaching start of  the school year, I can think of two pieces of advice that have always served me well. 

Firstly, my father always said, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Of course this isn't one hundred percent applicable in all situations, but for general use, it's a very good policy.

Secondly, I heard somewhere to always try to be the person your pet thinks you are. Good advice for all of us.

Hope all of my fellow TPLers out there are having a terrific start to the week!

mhajec

The best advice I've ever received, stay low and move fast. It actually applies to life far more than I had first believed it to. Second best piece of advice, hope is not a plan. It's great to be hopeful, but put some legs to your prayers.

thewanderingdude

Don't date really nice ugly girls..You're welcome

Corey562

Don't let yesterday use up to much of today. 

 Dont go outside of obeying God to get something because you will have to stay outside of God to keep it.

Corey562

My pops is always full of good advice nothing better than sitting with him and taking it all in while I was growing up he used to constantly tell me watch how you treat people today you never know who will end up as your boss tomarrow. And his favorite Don't live today like it is your last day live it like its your first. I still ponder that one.

PappyJoe

Dont' worry about things that don't affect your paycheck. 

drac2485

@pappyjoe I like your advice.

This may offend some one so sorry ahead of time but the best piece of advice I was given was "don't put your dick in crazy"

mhajec

@drac2485 that's the best advice I've heard yet! Wish someone would have told me that when I was younger, LOL.

Instead all I got was, cloak the oak. Oh, and go fat early.

dstrib

Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Don't expect something for nothing.
Don's expect people to change.
People make mistakes, if you can not forgive others do not expect them to forgive you.
You are the expert of your own opinion.

Watchmaker61

Don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you reed and see.

drac2485

@watchmaker61 I love that saying.  I wish I could remember where I have heard it before.

mhajec

There's no truth in the news an no news in the truth

Abreathawayfromglory

ahh yes I have been told by my grandpa 

The stick that stirs the Shit ends up with Shit on it

in other words dont stir shit up lol 

judandhispipe

You can be happy, or you can be right. This wasn't advice as much as putting into words something I already knew about relationships.

PappyJoe

You can either be in the Coast Guard or you can grow up. You can't do both.

Abreathawayfromglory

ohh and the one I use the most 

Happy wife! Happy Life

Watchmaker61

Forgot this one. Never write, when you can speak, never speak when you can nod, never nod when you can wink!

dstrib

Don’t judge a women from 100 feet away.

PappyJoe

@dstrib  - Don't judge a woman after a 6 pack.

CretinDan

High Quality

Made Quickly

Inexpensive

in life, you can only pick two.

CretinDan

Oh, and my favorite from my father. I know he didn't coin it, but he always said the following two phrases CONSTANTLY

"Anything worth doing is worth doing RIGHT"

"'Can't" never did anything"

Kirbyb

be good or be good at it!

LostMason

Never loan anything you can't afford to lose
Never loan money to friends or family,give it and savor the relationship

Mangoandy

I have an entire list of my favorite pieces of advice.

Two daily favorites that I try to follow: "Give others the benefit of the doubt." and "Enjoy the journey."

Of course I am often heard telling younge men: "Stay single, your pockets will jingle"

joshbishop

“Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

thesubcon

"When riches increases, so do the things that consume them"

King Solomon

tomatobodhi

"I'd rather say, 'I don't know,' than talk all day and prove it."

"Just because there is more than one right way doesn't mean there are no wrong ways."

mhajec

Quality time for quality people

drac2485

Make time for family and friends, there is away time for other things, but you never know when the they won't be there.