In honor of Mother's Day (May 13), we rounded up some of the best advice reader's have received from their mothers.

You can't learn anything if you think you know it all.
June Grove, Brogue

You will never be sorry for what you do not say.
Doris Muir, 80, Shrewsbury

The best advice my mother gave me was to be true to myself, listen to my gut feelings and don’t worry about what others might think. Although I’ve yet to master any of the above, I have faith someday it just might sink in.
Jeanine Scarpato, 45, Seven Valleys

My mother had a great work ethic and worked as many as three jobs at a time as I was growing up. As I was trying to decide what I wanted to do in life, she offered me this advice:
“Whatever you choose to do, there are two things you MUST do. 1. Get educated and trained for the job the best you can. 2. Make sure you love doing it as you may have to wake up every day for the rest of your life and do it.”
Great advice, Mom. I have been teaching 33 years and I still love it!
Shelby Ness, 56, Spring Garden Township

My mom had some of the best advice I have ever received during my lifetime. She was raised in an English family and the traditional English “never give up” motto was engrained in me. If something was worth doing, then do it well. Find a way to do it right and do it well. Use patience, intelligence, care and consideration of others, and find a way to accomplish the task.
Paulette Houghton, East Manchester Township

It’s better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
Sue Dobak, 46, York Township

Always remember that if you act like a lady you will be treated as a lady.
Elizabeth Neary, 78, Shrewsbury

My Mother told me that boyfriends will come and go but it's the relationships of friends that need to be nurtured because when the boy is no longer "the one!" you still want your friends to be around. It is so true and when the girls call and you keep saying no, the potential is there that they will stop calling. There really is plenty of time in life to find "the one!" but throughout life, it's friends that we truly can count on and need. (even when married, with children and settled in with "the one!")
Karen Strathmeyer, 39, York Township

The best advice she has told me, and keeps reminding me, is that each age you achieve has something exciting and wonderful to offer you, and in my 57 yrs, I have remembered that and found it to be so true!
Denise Pittenger, 57, Springfield Township

My best advice I received from my mother was “don’t forget your please and thank you.” Whenever we went to a friends house or to a birthday party the last words out of my mother’s mouth were “Don’t forget your please and thank you.”
My mother has been gone for 32 years now I was only 20 when she passed, I am proud to say that I embedded that same phrase into my three children and I was always told how polite my children are, I am blessed with grandchildren now and I shall teach them the same message.
In this day and age manners are few and far between but to me they are the most important thing.
Bridget Landis, 52, West York

I can remember my mom — when my children were little and they had a belly ache; she would put them around the leg of a table several times — this was called bow-wowing.
When the grandchildren were bad, she would say, “Do you want a floggin?”
She always told us to make sure you had clean undies before you went to bed because you never knew if you would get sick at night and you would have to go to the doctor or hospital.
Dolly Sutton, 70, Dover Township

My Mother taught me how to love and take care of children no matter what problems they had. They are all special. She was the best!
Rita A Gall, 62, Manchester

My mother’s best advice was, “always be able to support yourself, you never know if by chance, choice or circumstance you will be alone and responsible for yourself and/or other family members. If you decide to leave the workforce to raise children or engage in other pursuits, make sure you stay current with your career (education and training) so that if/when you re-enter, you won’t be in a catch-up or starting over situation."
Siri Rainone, 53, York

My goal as a mother is to impart wisdom to my children for when they become mothers, they can take what was taught to them and add a little more for their children and to pass on the knowledge of our Lord and Savior. My relationship with my mother was not one that was close. Having a hard relationship with my mother as she raised me by herself and my brother and sister lived with my father and my oldest sister marring at the age of 16. When I was a teenager she worked two jobs and things were still tight. I resented my mother for so many thing that I could not wait until I was a mother. I never wanted to put my children through the same things as I went through. I wanted to be better then my mother, however once I became a mother and my children were about four, six and seven years old, my mother told me how proud of me she was. That I was being a good mother to my girls and that I was raising them with values and manners. This was a precious comment that I will treasure and never forget those words that my mother spoke to me. I realized that being a mother was hard work and a never ending job and will be one of the toughest and most rewarding jobs I will ever have. Being a mother is a very hard job and that you are not always the most popular person in your children’s life. You are not doing the job of being a mother to be friends with your children, but to teach how to care for themselves and get them ready to become adults to live in this world as decent human beings. My mother died about two weeks after her comment about how proud she was of me being a mother. I believe that many mothers go into motherhood not truly understanding their roles as the child’s mother. Some great things that my mother taught me were to work hard , not give up on yourself or your children. I do believe that there are reasons why we are brought into this world with the mothers we have. Their job is to help shape and mold you into the person you will become as an adult. I can truly say I am thankful that I had the mother I had. God Bless
Tina Miller, 37, Windsor

Advise my Mother gave me:
1. If you have nothing nice to say to others then don’t say nothing at all.
2. Don’t judge a book (meaning a person) but its cover. Until you get to know the person.
3. Seek and you shall find. (Meaning if you can’t find something. keep looking you will find it.)
Debbie Doughty, 35, Springettsbury Township

My parents have taught me so many amazing things including working hard and giving back to my community ... basically how to be a good person. What I learned from my mom that helps me on a daily basis, however, is howto act in social situations. This has helped me tremendously in my teenage and adult life. While many people become shy or fearful in public, I actually enjoy interacting with people, and I’m confident in myself. Mom made sure that we knew how to approach people and talk to them. When speaking in public, which I do quite often, I am typically not nervous, while many people confess to being scared to death. Mostly, though, mom taught my brother and me how to act at the dinner table. At a very young age we learned how to set the table and how each item is used. As an adult, and even as a teenager, I never have never had to ask what fork to use or which plate or cup is mine. And, because we ate meal sat the kitchen table regularly, we learned how to have dinner conversation with others. Because of my mom, I feel so confident starting and participating in conversations during a lengthy formal luncheon or dinner event with people I have never met before. I thank my mom for instilling such confidence in me. While I don’t have any children, my family and I are passing these skills on to my brother’s three children.
Bryan Tate, City of York

When we were young, my mother would tell me this saying: “You run with the wolves, you howl with them.” It meant you go with friends who get in trouble, you are in trouble too. I shared this with a friend and she thought it was good advice.
Dorothy Leithiser, 86, Wrightsville

She always taught us to take good care of our things. My grandmother saw what good care we took of our belongings so she wouldn't mind giving us new things. To this day I still follow her advice.
Rita Potter, Springettsbury Township

My mother taught me the meaning of giving not always with words, but how she was living. She still gives of herself and it’s easy to see — her time, an ear, her voice, money or food. Whatever it takes to meet the need. Love for one another is a strong part of her giving instilled in me early — now that’s how I’m living 30 years later, here are my children, and they do the same, and we are so thankful giving was a part of how we’re trained.
Deborah Orr, 54, York

When you have your own home and family always keep your beds made up, and dishes washed and put away. You will always have a neat-looking home.
Charlotte Biesecker, 88, Thomasville