What is your favourite quote / best advice you've ever recieved?

One of my favorite quotes: Don’t insult the alligator until you’ve crossed the river. I think that fits as good advice as well.

A strong man stands up for himself but a stronger man stands up for others~ my son was watching barnyard yesterday and that was in the movie, it was the first thing that came to mind LOL

Its not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

one of my favorite quotes is… ” when we wake up in the morning, we have two simple choices. Go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams”

Two come to mind as I reply to this…I probably could have come up with something more insightful given more time…..
Never refuse a piece of gum when offered.
and
Never turn down a free meal or drink.
The later was from a buddy’s father who also preached “Civil Service”...Get a Civil Service job….20 years after all those sermons I did….Hope to retire in five years….

I love the quote.
“a fish can love a bird, but where would they live”
<3

“anybody wanna waste some time?” -reqium for a dream

if it feels good.. LOL

Blaise Pascal: c.1657

1)I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

2) The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

2) in the original:
Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas.

“There is more to life than increasing its speed”

-Ghandi

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think about” – Dale Carnegie

John 3:16

its doesn’t come to you, it comes out of you! -unknown

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. Proverbs 15:1

I just heard this awesome one: “Life is too serious to be taken seriously”. I have to remember that one ;-)

Just as gailcalled’s “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of”, I love that.

In reference to food, usually…

“It’s so good, you’ll slap yo’ mama!”

I once told a friend this advice/quote when she was going through a rough time with guys. And thought there was noone there when she always came to me so obviously I was there.

Lots of people “think” they have nobody, when all they need to do is turn the mirror around to see all the people they’ve been missing because they’ve been looking ahead instead of right beside them.

Also, a friend of mine, while wasted, made a really good one.

If you get too caught up in the day-to-day you will miss out on the day today.

I heard this one a few days ago, in some TV show: “better safe than sterile” :P

It’s a tie for me

“If a man sics a dog on you, then you must kill that dog.” – Malcolm X

” Never be friends with unlucky people.” – Ben Stein

I am a big quotes freak so I cannot choose one as a favorite. But one that comes to mind right now is “those who anger you control you”

“Don’t be an idiot.”

It changed my life.

When I’m about to do something I stop and say, “Would an idiot do that?”

If the answer is yes, then I do not do that thing.

When I was in middle school, I wanted to be one of the popular girls so I was thinking about going out for cheerleading. My mom said, “Laureth, if you want to go out and do something, go do it. However, do the thing, don’t just cheer for the people that are doing something.” She was totally right!