Advice Quote Archive


Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. — Daniel J. Boorstin


There are times of your life when life is about getting. And then, there are times when your life is about giving. Always pray to live in those giving times. Only there are you truly safe. — Bill Purdin


He that’s aground knows where the shoal doth lie. — Benjamin Franklin


When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. — Kahlil Gibran


When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. — Henri Nouwen


Where facts are few, experts are many. — Donald R. Gannon


Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. — Daniel J. Boorstin


There are times of your life when life is about getting. And then, there are times when your life is about giving. Always pray to live in those giving times. Only there are you truly safe. — Bill Purdin


He that’s aground knows where the shoal doth lie. — Benjamin Franklin


When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
— Kahlil Gibran


When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. — Henri Nouwen