Top 19 Follow Your Own Advice Quotes
#1. What is it, Father?" Picket asked as Mother tenderly took Jacks from him. "It's only that, when you're older, you hand out wisdom to your children like you know everything, but it is sometimes hard to follow your own advice.
S.D. Smith
#2. The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.
Agatha Christie
#3. Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers
#4. Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.
Vincent De Paul
#5. My grandmother has hundreds of axioms. One of them was 'If you think you want something, wait a month.' One of three things will happen if you follow this sage advice. One: You will forget. Two: You will no longer need it. Or three: You will need it more. Most often numbers one and two will happen.
Matthew Sleeth
#6. Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your, knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way.
Saadi
#7. We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.
Mitt Romney
#8. It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.
Saadi
#9. Cherchez la femme" is good advice for investigative reporters. "Follow the money" is even better advice.
Ben Bradlee
#10. I will give you two pieces of advice. Invest as much in yourself as you can; you are your own best asset by far. Then follow your passion; you want to be really excited to get out of bed every morning.
Warren Buffett
#11. You have your whole life ahead of you," my mother told me, "don't spend all your time in the past." It's good advice, I know it is, but the past has its own ideas. It can follow you around with a life of its own, casting a long shadow.
Gregory Galloway
#12. When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#13. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.
Christopher Paolini
#14. Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#15. Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
Norm MacDonald
#18. I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.
Terrence J
#19. The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
Virginia Woolf