Top 57 Good Life Advice Quotes
#1. Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
Confucius
#2. You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
John Ruskin
#3. It's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...
John Geddes
#4. Sleeping is good for good health! When you skip a moment's good sleep, you skip a moment's good health! Mind your time and make a time for a good sleeping time!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#5. 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
#6. A good life is the result of a thousand small choices and so is a bad one.
Karina Bliss
#7. You want a piece of advice?" said Ripred.
"Don't bother. I know what you'll say. The whole thing's stupid," said Gregor.
"Quite the contrary. I was going to say that life is short. There are only a few good things in it, really. Don't pretend that one isn't happening." said Ripred.
Suzanne Collins
#8. My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.
Amy Sedaris
#9. Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
Patricia Cornwell
#10. I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.
Susan Andersen
#11. It's interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It's as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.
Donald Miller
#12. My God
life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?'
'Don't try,' he said. 'Just pretend you understand.'
'That's
that's very good advice.' I went limp.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.
Nicholas Sparks
#14. Intrinsic values and qualities are age-free. For example, social competencies or a good heart.
Rossana Condoleo
#15. Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to.
Rossana Condoleo
#16. I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
Irene Rosenfeld
#17. I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#18. My mother taught me caring and sensitivity towards the feelings of others, animals as well as humans. She gave me much good, practical advice for getting through life.
Robert C. Merton
#22. That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.
William Schreyer
#23. I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.
Wesley Snipes
#24. Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#25. In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
Hack Wilson
#26. A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you're sorry.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#27. Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.
R.M. Donaldson
#28. My advice to young people; never allow anyone to look down upon you because you are young. Live exemplary life and be of good conduct.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.
Tobias Wolff
#31. We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.
Ernest Hemingway,
#34. Retaliation is not the answer. You're going to have to deal with mean backstabbing girls your whole life, you need to learn to be smart enough to rise above, okay?
Did you kick her ass? Good girl!
Richard Castle
#35. Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
Erica Jong
#36. My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
Iris Apfel
#37. Advice from a Bear: 1 Live Large 2 Climb Beyond Your Limitations 3 When Life Gets Hairy, Grin and Bear It 4 Live With The Seasons 5 Take A Good Long Nap 6 Look After Your Honey!
Ilan Shamir
#38. take free food or tea from anyone talking about God
and find Heaven
its gotta be out there
for there must be God
and how could any talk of good or God be wrong
Dito Montiel
#39. A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world
and the responsibilities of your life.
Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away.
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.
Mary Oliver
#40. Wilbur would remark that if he were to give a young man advice on how to get ahead in life, he would say, Pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio.
David McCullough
#42. Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#43. If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#45. You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us.
Best lesson my father ever taught me.
Rick Yancey
#46. Read. You can always talk with another reader.
Rorke Denver
#47. Mourn with those are sorrowful.
Be happy with those who are joyful.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.
John Mortimer
#49. For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.
Eugene H. Peterson
#50. Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.
Idowu Koyenikan
#51. Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.
Robert Orben
#52. There's really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#53. My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
Jeannette Walls
#54. Val: Why do you go out there?
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What advice do they give?
Sandra: Just one word- live!
Tennessee Williams
#55. There are worse things than being robbed ... " I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. " ... worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.
Neal Shusterman
#56. If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. WILBUR WRIGHT
David McCullough
#57. If something good was happening in my life, I'd call my mom to let her know. If something bad was happening, she'd be somebody whose advice I would seek out. We had a very good relationship, but she drove me crazy, all the time. But, she drove me crazy in a loving way.
Dan Fogelman
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