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?

[blam]

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

[Nifster]

No one is promised tomorrow.

[rlmorel]

“Marry the right person.”

[2ndDivisionVet]

“Plastics.”

[Mastador1]

I believe it was Sister Mary in second grade “Shut up, sit down and do your work!”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Plastics.”

[ken5050]

Avoid fast cars and fast women

[fwdude]

There are perhaps a couple of ways to do a job right, and thousands of ways to do it wrong.

[max americana]

My mentor in my current line of work many years ago. “In life either you’re the pigeon, or you’re the statue. You are one of the 2. Pick one”

[chris37]

That the only thing that matter in this world is love.

In the end, it’s all you ever had, and it’s the only thing you can take with you

[Secret Agent Man]

hands inside the ride at all times.

eat your vegetables.

do not let me catch you doing THAT (fill in whatever THAT is).

if you can’t afford it, don’t buy it.

tv will rot your brain.

when you have sex with someone you’re sleeping with everyone they’ve slept with.

[big bad easter bunny]

Everybody! Has their own agenda!

[dfwgator]

Lord loves a working man.

Don’t trust whitey.

See a doctor and get rid of it.

[Jim from C-Town]

Wait until after 30 to get married. Maybe the feeling will go away and then you can buy a sports car.

From my Maternal Grandfather married at 33. I married at 34.
Neither of us ever got that sports car.

[eastforker]

The best I received......or the best I followed??

[Political Junkie Too]

Stay out da bushes.

-PJ

[gaijin]

Steer clear of drugs and booze.

I recently got a ticket —tons of scuzzy perps had to go first and nearly everyone there in court was for SOMETHING that somehow had SOMETHING to do with booze or drugs.

[South40]

Don't marry that girl.

I didn't.

I waited, and I ended up marrying a different girl who is the love of my life.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Twice I cut it off and it’s still too short.” Told to me by Dad when I started snarling about some stupid mistake I’d made in the shop. Always calmed me down and got me reconnected. Dad always said it in German, too.

Also “You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.” Although a good life lesson from Dad, I never understood why I wanted to catch flies.