It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.

It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.

It's easy to offer advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.

With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.

Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?

Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone’s path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference.

You should remember that a word of good advice does not apply to every situation. Excepting this advice, of course.

It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice.

Take it one step at a time—inarguably wise advice. And yet we all take a running leap, hoping the wind will catch us on its wings and lift us clear to the top of the beanstalk. Those few Jacks who have reached new heights in this manner inevitably wish they had taken more time to prepare for the overbearing giant who greeted them.