life advice quotes

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.