Quotes About Advice From Friends

#1. Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad.

Arnold Lobel

#2. My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

Mark Warner

#3. 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

#4. It doesn't matter what clothes you had or what shoes you had, or how cool you were, or how many Facebook friends you garnered, what will matter in the end is what weapons you had, how many zombies you killed, and how long you survived.

Caleb Eversole

#5. His defences are good. But it is his friends that will bring him low, not his enemies, Lady Culter. Keep you out of his way. That's the best advice I can give you.

Dorothy Dunnett

#6. Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

Ron Chernow

#7. It is far better to have 10,000 Facebook friends who are in the same category or aligned with your values or a common inter- est than 100,000 random robot followers from around the world.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#8. I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

Raquel Cepeda

#9. Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#10. Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.

Sheryl Sandberg

#11. All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Mark Zuckerberg

#12. Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those magic times. I knew it.

Charles Bukowski

#14. Are you giving the same advice over and over and over again to clients, patients, pupils, interns or friends? If the answer is yes, you should probably write a book about whatever it is that you keep repeating.

Gudjon Bergmann

#15. I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

Carrie Fisher

#16. Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Carolyn Wells

#17. As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.

Orson Scott Card

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

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. I've learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

Gale Harold

#20. To my beloved friends, there's simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I'd look for new friends and get them.

Martin Short

#21. Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends.

Kin Hubbard

#23. Connect, connect.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. My friends tried to ignore my quirks since they didn't have a clue what to do about them. It didn't seem hard on them though. They were already trained to ignore their parents' alcohol abuse, constant bickering, serial marriages, and nonsensical advice.

Terry Spencer Hesser

#25. Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do you harm; don't think about an old man who would be dead long since, were it not for his dear habit of coming here every day and finding his old friends on these shelves.

Jules Verne

#26. I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.

Timothy Miller

#27. My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and ... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.

Lorde

#28. Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends you can be bribe with baking.

Ada Maria Soto

#29. Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

Regina Brett

#30. The best way to know a city is to eat it.

Scott Westerfeld

#31. I'm definitely the person for most of my friends that everyone calls, goes to and wants advice from.

Edwina Findley

#32. My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

Pink

#33. What every new parent needs.a ton of expert advice, presented with humor and zero negativity, from two moms who instantly feel like your best friends. This is the one pregnancy guide that new parents will actually want to read.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#34. Don't be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.

Israelmore Ayivor

#35. Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.

T. Harv Eker

#36. A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice
but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

Doris Wild Helmering

#37. Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

John O'Callaghan

#38. My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#39. Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#40. The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Phillips Brooks

#41. Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert Kiyosaki

#42. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

Taylor Swift

#43. But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when there was foolish counsel available from his male friends.

Eddie Lenihan

#44. The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.

Vanessa Minnillo

#45. I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

Dan Savage

#46. I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.

Penelope Cruz

#47. Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

Robin Sloan

#48. Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.

Torrey DeVitto

#49. Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Moshe Dayan

#50. I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.

Anna Quindlen

#51. Be great or be gone

David Briggs

#52. One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it's friends who esteem marriage that will do this; not people who belittle it or question the value of it.

Ashleigh Slater

#53. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracian

#54. The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

Fred Saberhagen

#55. I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?

Nicole Trunfio

#56. Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Roger L'Estrange

#57. Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.

Carlos Wallace

#58. That was actually my motivation for creating Bigger Leaner Stronger: For many years now, I've had friends, family, acquaintances, and co-workers approach me for fitness advice, and they were almost always convinced of many strange, unworkable ideas about diet and exercise.

Michael Matthews

#59. The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess.

Sarah Palin

#60. Actually, it's my younger brother who has me ticked, but since you brought up the boyfriend thing, take my advice; Be the black widow. Find a guy, have fun with him, then eviscerate him in the morning before he can brag about it to his friends. (Chrissy)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#61. Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

Robert Urich

#62. 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

#63. Life became more aligned when I started taking some of the advice I'd been dishing out to my friends.

Paula Heller Garland

#64. If you want to know what your child is doing, look at their friends, they wouldn't be friends with them if they weren't doing the same things.

Catie Hartsfield

#65. All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need our friends for support and advice, but we draw our strength from within.

Paul Levine

#66. Pay heed, my darlings, and always take the greatest care over the company you keep in life: if death strikes you without warning, you may be stuck with them til the moon turns to blood and wouldn't that be a torment?

Karen Maitland

#67. If your clothes are enough to drive would-be friends away, they're not the kind of friends you want.
Typical mother advice. Sweet, honest, and completely useless.

Aprilynne Pike

#68. We are inter-dependence and co-dependence upon one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita