What is the best advice you've ever received?

[MNDude]

Maybe it was some wise warning your dad once gave you, or maybe it was something useful your coach told you that still guides you today, but what would you consider that best advice you've ever received?

[chicagolady]

You reap what you sow!

[MaxMax]

Learn from other peoples mistakes.

[Fresh Wind]

“If you want something done right, you’ll always have to do it yourself”

[matchgirl]

Never marry a man for his money, because once you’ve spent it, you’re stuck with him.

My grandfather told me this when I was about 12 or 13 and I followed it. We celebrated our 50th in September.

[FredZarguna]

See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

[FredZarguna]

People don't treat you the way they treat you because of who you are. They treat you the way they treat you because of who they are.

[FredZarguna]

Daddy said “Son, don’t you lose your head, to a woman who’ll spend your bread.”

[FredZarguna]

Take off and nuke the site from space. It’s the only way to really be sure.

[Arthur McGowan]

It was something I read, in an article in Parade Magazine, titled “How the Brain Works.”

“Never tell anyone anything. If he wanted to know, he already would.”

[matchgirl]

from my mother

A lady never leaves home without a clean hanky in her purse.

[Mark17]

“Plastics.”

Coo coo ca choo Mrs Robinson

[Organic Panic]

Din’t take advice from anyone, for any reason, about anything, ever. Best advice I ever got.

[sten]

you make your own luck

[Pollster1]

Never lick a gift horse in the mouth.

Not quite the version I heard, but I like yours too.

[lucky american]

Measure twice, cut once.

[Artie]

Measure twice, cut once.

[Artie]

Creepy...

[killermosquito]

When you buy socks buy a large quantity that are all identical. When one develops a hole all of the rest of the socks still match.

[joegoeny]

You’re smart like your father you dope! (I have since used it on both my sons.)

[upsdriver]

My Dad; Don’t crawl into the back seat with someone you can’t stand to look at across the breakfast table.