Quotations: Practical Advice

If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Never complain and never explain. - Benjamin Disraeli
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. - Benjamin Franklin
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. - Oscar Wilde
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. - Will Rogers
When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer. - Gene Hill
It is not enough to aim, you must hit. - Italian proverb
Begin at the beginning . . . and go on till you come to the end: then stop. - Lewis Carroll
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. - Philip Dormer Stanhope
Don't get really good at something you don't want to do. - Mark Albion
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. - Turkish proverb
One may go a long way after one is tired. - French proverb
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. - Larry Eisenberg
No one ever listened himself out of a job. - Calvin Coolidge
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut. - Daniel S. Breenberg
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. - Thomas Jefferson
You've got to do you own growing, no matter how tall you grandfather was. - Irish Proverb
If there is no wind, row. - Latin proverb
A good scare is worth more than good advice. - E.W. Howe
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle. - Spanish proverb
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucious
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. - Fran Liebowitz
One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. - Frank Sheed
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. - T.H. Huxley
That is a bad bridge which is shorter than the stream. - German proverb
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey