What's the best piece of life advice you've ever received?

7 years ago

Whether it was about your career, personal life or future prospects - what is the single best piece of advice you've ever been told?

Sometimes a simple sentence can strike a chord so here's hoping that we'll all be inspired! Give us your best below!

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"If you think you are
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Petite Maison
7 years ago
On deciding whether to take more than a couple of days off work after an early miscarriage, my mum said "you don't get this time again, don't go back too early"
Helen Kane
7 years ago
It took a while for me to get it but (post-cancer and divorce ) it is pretty simple really: 'Love the life you live'
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jc3135rc
7 years ago
The prettiest thing you can wear is a smile.
tybachtwt
7 years ago
One piece of advice which I've found to be useful in all sorts of difficult situations is : "You can always do the things you've got to do." It helps steel yourself at your weakest moments.
mirkearney
7 years ago
The first time I ever went for promotion in work, I was really terrified and my boss said to me " Just remember they can't take the job you have away from you, so just do your best and you just might end up getting what you want". I have always passed this on to my staff since.
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7 years ago
Just because someone says it, doesn't make it so.
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http://www.sugarscape.com/celebs/news/g330/20-worst-life-hacks-all-time/
Heidi Cullen
7 years ago
Will it make you happy? If it doesn't lead to happiness then walk away.
lisacab
7 years ago
If nothing changes, then nothing changes.
ninorcm
7 years ago
Just do it...You could be dead tomorrow!
Joaneduk
7 years ago
It's a long game played slowly
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ingridtyrie
7 years ago
Treat everybody the way you would like them to treat you
ali270
7 years ago
My mum taught me never to look down on anyone unless I was helping them up and to always reward a kindness.
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7 years ago
My lovely dad has always said to me " if you want something, be prepared to give something else up" when I was younger i never really understood this. But as I grow older this has really helped me prioritise everything in my life and made me realise how to compromise.
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7 years ago
"Pretty is as pretty does".
ali270
7 years ago
My mum taught me to never look down on anyone unless you were helping them up and to always reward a kindness .
jmm1837
7 years ago
"Don't sweat the small stuff." Not always easy, but if you can keep things in perspective and not spend a lot of time and angst on things that don't matter in the bigger scheme of things, you'll have the time you need for the things that really do matter.
Heena N
7 years ago
"Trying times are not the times to stop trying." Thanks papa, so true.
brynnwinter
7 years ago
When I think it is hard having two small children I remember "the days might be long but the years go by quickly." Don't wish it away!
Marie Wright
7 years ago
You only live once, whats the worse you can be told... No
Kayte Mosse
7 years ago
a nun in school saying " the best is yet to come". So there's always something good around the corner.

a year later she handed my my LC results with a big disappointed look on her face.
irenecb
7 years ago
My Granddad was a very wise soul who would often guide me as a child. He used to say that 'your good enough to go anywhere but never stay where you are not made to feel welcomed.
sharonnormanton
7 years ago
Regarding "spending a penny", my mum has always told us, "go when you can, not when you have to", it's one of many sayings I now inflict on my children.
Najeebah
7 years ago
My father told me, at the base of a waterfall, to always remember that "the water keeps flowing" in life, as with a waterfall.
A character in a novel taught me, "Thought before action, if you have time"
A sports instructor taught me, "You'll never fall further than the ground"
And a dear teacher taught me to see the good in everything, and everyone.

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Jasmine White London
7 years ago
A very wise friend once said: 'Don't let outside forces control your life'-make your life what you want it to be.
Jen Osborne
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'Try not to take things personally , what people say about you is a reflection of them, not you'

'Be kind whenever possible. It's always possible' (The Dalai Lama)

'Keep it simple!'

:)
moiraford
7 years ago
Me dad, a gruff Scouse type, gave me the following advice at 17....
1) never pack more than you can carry.
2) never trust a man in a white polo neck jumper
3) always always complain about the hotel room you are given ( but raid the mini bar fist, computer can't keep up)
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d & b
7 years ago
make your own mistakes!
mrsthing
7 years ago
My mum's only good bit of advice was "You can be very lonely being right" and my brother once said to me when I was about to make a bad decision, "You can kid everyone else, just don't kid yourself". I still made the bad decision anyway but realised later that I had been deluding myself.
windwizard
7 years ago
To love, rather than hate, to give without seeking reward and to avoid making your life all about working for 'money', which does not make us or the Planet 'happy'. Do life-supporting work and avoid doing harm.
Daisy England
7 years ago
Where there's a problem there's an opportunity. Great line.
ellalo
7 years ago
If not now, when? My fave, from the film Strictly Ballroom, is a life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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ARC Bespoke Interiors
7 years ago
always check if your seeds are growing, if they have not grown there's a problem

we only live once, enjoy
dianahartaboyne
7 years ago
If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you've always got..I read this at a pivotal point in my life, took the plunge and applied for the job I wanted but was scared of not being good enough, got it and loved it, best job ever for 7 years!
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7 years ago
Whatever you do in life do it 100% with everything you have, then there are no regrets....
clairef09
7 years ago
"Your biggest regret in life won't be what you did do, but what you didn't do".
Chris Goodchild
6 years ago
The most valuable tool in your box is your brain.

Keep it sharp.

I also stand by, 'It is never too late to learn something new'.
Stephen Edwards
6 years ago
Never go to bed on an argument. (Keep it going and eventually the other person will give in)
Najeebah
6 years ago
LOL!
tezz4
6 years ago
Always love your number one first and foremost - yourself!
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Do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.
Nicola Jack
6 years ago
From my parents....'do as you be done by' and my advice to myself...'never pass on a pee'!
Sonia
6 years ago
Never eat yellow snow.
acew1234
6 years ago
I was sitting on my sundeck complaining at my untidy garden, my step father said...'well it won't weed itself'.
So everytime something horrid needs doing I tell myself that and just get on with it!
Kathy
6 years ago
If you keep doing what you did, you keep getting what you got.
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OnePlan
6 years ago
Wrap the presents BEFORE you open the wine !!! Hic. ! ( I may have failed to implement this one - whoops !)

Have a wonderful, safe and happy Christmas lovely Houzzers ! :-)
Kate
6 years ago
Mum always says....

- Only take out a mortgage that you can afford to pay on one wage (in case of redundancy/pregnancy etc).
- You soon lose weight when you’re ill so eat how you want to until that day!

Dad always says....

- Put your socks on before your shoes!
- Don’t worry about things until they happen.
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6 years ago
Treat others the way you would want to be treated yourself!

Also ‘slow and steady wins the race’

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