Philip James Bailey Quotes

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

You're a liar!" He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.

He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

A very honest woman but something given to lie

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.