Top 100 Great Advice Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Great Advice

#1. My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

Max Walker

#2. Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

Zac Efron

#3. When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'

Drew Barrymore

#4. Try not to be too stupid, will you?
That sounded like some great advice ...

Thea Harrison

#5. In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.

Rhett McLaughlin

#6. Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.

Dick Dale

#7. My Mum always says to have fun; remember that fashion is about fun, and that is the most important thing because sometimes, people take it very seriously. Great advice to remember!

Georgia May Jagger

#8. Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.

Rachel Platten

#9. Bad advice will blind you.
Good advice will instruct you.
Great advice will enlighten you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Great mentors give great advice.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

Rachel McAdams

#12. Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#13. Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.

Karen X. Tulchinsky

#14. It's a good community, country music, because we get the chance to sit down and ... me and Tim McGraw spend a lot of time. Me and Kenny Chesney had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together. It's been a lot of great advice through the years.

Luke Bryan

#15. I first met Hanson over in Japan and they gave me some great advice about the fans and they seem real down to earth. They're great.

Meredith Brooks

#16. There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.

Ned Beauman

#17. My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

G. Hannelius

#18. One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

Dave Goldberg

#19. I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.

Arizona Muse

#20. With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

Daniel Ek

#21. We Are All Capable of Great Things

Angie-Marie Delsante

#22. My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

Peter Facinelli

#23. The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Bruno Bettelheim

#24. Be great or be gone

David Briggs

#25. Embrace each new day with great expectations.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.

Edward Weston

#27. ...use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you're doing, you'll do great.

Michael Bierut

#28. All that a child needs is a great love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Create reciprocity in your business by making the first gesture, like make a comment on the blog of a great speaker.

Lisa A. Mininni

#30. The best beauty advice I ever received is to keep skin hydrated and limit harsh exposure to the sun. If you are set on the tanned look, there are plenty of great creams that will give you a healthy-looking glow.

Erica Durance

#31. I was in my recliner bundled up in my terrycloth robe, a gift from my great aunt Maureen, that came with some sage advice: darling, after a warm body, a terrycloth robe is the next best thing to cuddle up with on a cold night.

Suzanne M. Trauth

#32. To his great relief she recommended no course of action. She listened. She didn't believe in giving advice, even when asked.

Charles Baxter

#33. If you admit your fear to yourself and to him, then maybe this time you can face it instead of running away.' Even as he spoke the words to her, they hit him in the gut. He could dole out advice. But he wasn't great at following it. He'd been running away from his past for ten years.

Jody Hedlund

#34. Great content inspires action.

Dane Brookes

#35. May our hearts be filled with great love for one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. My advice: If you every have the chance to change the world, don't hesitate. Leave your great big mark.

Shannon Hale

#37. Every toy is the prologue to some great amiss.

William Shakespeare

#38. To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

Marcus Aurelius

#39. God, you'd think that great corners in life should come with a warning sign at the side of the proverbial road, a little yellow number that announced which direction you were going to go in, and maybe offered a "reduce speed" kind of advice.

J.R. Ward

#40. The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you," which is also sound advice today!

Barrie Kerper

#41. I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

Larry Wilcox

#42. What I think is great style advice that people have told me is that people who are confident look beautiful. No matter what they're wearing, no matter if they're inappropriately dressed, no matter if their hair's not really done right, eyebrows haven't been tweezed.

Soledad O'Brien

#43. A great piece of advice for online dating is to stand out from the crowd. So greetings like "hello" and "hi" are very common. They do less well than things that are a little bit quirky or a little bit weird, like "howdy" or "holla." The rarer your salutation, the better it does, in general.

Christian Rudder

#44. Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.

Rob Liano

#45. Fashion advice from the Tooth Fairy, that's great.

John Cena

#46. The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try.

Rob Liano

#47. Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#48. Just do what you want, I don't think you should ever ... pointers and tips from people is great, and it's good and I don't think you should ever shun down advice, but if you feel something's wrong, then you don't do it. And that's what I'd say.

Gabrielle Aplin

#49. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that... Marlene Sanders... once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist: "Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give to your child.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#50. Blogging is a great way to provide tips and advice to each other.

Indra Nooyi

#51. As you ramble on through life, Brother,
Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut,
And not upon the hole.

Margaret Atwood

#52. Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola.

Alexa Chung

#53. I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

Alfred Lansing

#54. Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

Mark Twain

#55. A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

Joseph Campbell

#56. I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#57. The number one advice I give to my students is to be a culture creator, not a culture consumer," he continued. "You have to have time to create, and to create, you have to get rid of those things that steal your time. TV is the great time-stealer in American life.

Rod Dreher

#58. Word of advice, sister mine. If you want to keep your papers private, don't write 'Private' on the cover. It set the mater right off. It was all I could do to stop her sniffing around like some great sniffing thing.

Lauren Willig

#59. Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.

Charlize Theron

#60. I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day.

Heber J. Grant

#61. He has an affair, so we have another baby?" said Anne. "This is great fucking advice."
"What elegant language," said her father, glaring at Anne.

Courtney Maum

#62. Can I give you a word of advice?" Lucy asked.
"I suppose so."
"You have a great French accent. If a guy asks you to wear a French maid's costume, kick him in the shin."
"Especially if it's one of my brothers" Solange agreed.

Alyxandra Harvey

#63. There's only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

Stormie O'martian

#64. My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

Chuck Palahniuk

#65. The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

Agatha Christie

#66. Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

Baltasar Gracian

#67. In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

Rory Kinnear

#68. Marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.

John Eldredge

#69. Strangely enough, I don't seem to tolerate food in great quantities or when it is too rich anymore."
"That's perfectly all right. Most people dig their graves with their own teeth as it is.

Andrew Ashling

#70. Sweetie," Dino said, coming over to put his arm around her shoulder. He tipped her head up and looked into her eyes with great empathy. "You can't fuck a statue. At least not at that angle. You'd at least have to tip it onto its back first, and as a conservator, I can't recommend it.

Rosanna Leo

#71. Giving is an open gate to a great life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#72. Becky Vesey always gave good advice and she gave it with great conviction because she always believed it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#73. Three great actions; explore, experiment and experience.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#74. I live life with great passion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#75. All great stories began as shitty first drafts.
There are no exceptions to this.

M. Kirin

#76. The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.

Israelmore Ayivor

#77. By reading, we will know the minds of great soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#78. Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you!

Sarah Silverman

#79. In all of your relationships, romantic or not, GIVE. Practice it. You get good at what you practice, and sometimes you even become great.

Ilya Atani

#80. If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of herself, a creative endeavor she has poured her heart and soul into. Protecting and nurturing that work and the author is part of the job of a publisher.

Terena Scott

#81. I want fans to give me advice on girls; why do they always say they don't look good in pictures, even though they look great?

Kevin Jonas

#82. Gentleness is a great strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#83. The best advice that I can offer is that being proactive and a careful planner is key. Think about the major things that could shake up your financial life, and I'll bet there are some great ways to protect yourself.

Alexa Von Tobel

#84. Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.

Chris Murray

#85. Great. Relationship advice from one of America's most wanted.

Leslea Wahl

#86. Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.

Klaus Kinski

#87. The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.

Sean Penn

#88. The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.
He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice.

Oscar Wilde

#89. All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks
"AS IS." It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I'm far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me "AS IS" and I'll take you that way, too.

Steve Goodier

#90. We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats - and then they figured out where to drive it.

James C. Collins

#91. Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

Bruno Bettelheim

#92. Love one another with great passion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#93. That's called business, let's shake hands and .... we just made one great deal.

Deyth Banger

#94. Talk openly about important issues like money, sex, and religion. They can affect your life and happiness a great deal. Especially when it comes to cults.

Jesse Petersen

#95. Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

Arthur Helps