Top 100 Quotes About Advice
#1. He hated when his own advice applied to himself.
Rick Riordan
#2. Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
Ernest Hemingway,
#3. Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus
#4. Those Yalta nights, with extraordinary women who could drink vodka without swooning until six in the morning and sweaty young people from the Association of Proletarian Writers of Crimea who came to ask for literary advice at four in the afternoon.
Roberto Bolano
#5. Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#7. Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
Vinod Khosla
#8. My advice is to sell any high tech company when the United States brings an antitrust suit, not because the company will be harmed by the suit, but because by the time the government understands a tech business well enough to sue it, the world has moved on.
John McGinnis
#9. Mr Blyth, you should remember one thing. A celibate island life fighting Turks is no particular guarantee of early maturity. Take a little crone-like advice, and don't rush your judgements.
Dorothy Dunnett
#10. Dr. Leonard recommended that I schedule a meeting with a clinic audiologist for a hearing aid evaluation and introductory class. This turned out to be very good advice. Roughly
Monique E. Hammond
#11. I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.
Melina Marchetta
#12. Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
Ann Landers
#13. It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.
Michael York
#14. It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by ... ' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too.
Xavier Dolan
#15. Mean fake advice letters to students, and spreading lies and nasty rumors. And
Rachel Renee Russell
#16. Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.
Enrique Vila-Matas
#17. My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.
Michelle Singletary
#18. Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.
Judith Martin
#19. The Laundry field operations manual is notably short on advice for how to comport one's self when being held prisoner aboard a mad billionaire necromancer's yacht, other than the usual stern admonition to keep receipts for all expenses incurred in the line of duty.
Charles Stross
#20. I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present.
John Steinbeck
#21. And my piece of advice is ... don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.
Simone Elkeles
#22. I feel like my purpose on earth is to help other people and give good advice about some of the same things I have gone through.
Rahki
#23. I don't always make the best decisions, I don't always take the best advice, I don't always let the "small things" roll off, but I always try.
Emma Paul
#24. Want me to give him a little advice before he gets his nose broken?" "No," Jack said flatly. Jack was thinking that breaking his nose was going to feel very good. If Nick put one hand on her, he was going to come apart. "Good," Preacher said. "I haven't been to a good bar fight in years." In
Robyn Carr
#25. My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
Gabriel Fielding
#26. It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
Martin Bashir
#27. Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.
Ronald Kessler
#28. My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
Judy Blume
#29. It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice.
Anne Lamott
#30. It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.
Merlin Mann
#31. Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
Barry Zito
#32. My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.
Dave Morris
#33. Whatever advice you give, be short.
Horace
#34. Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.
Jeff Bingaman
#35. There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.
Benjamin Disraeli
#36. Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies.
(Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong.)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#37. In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," Glenn Close responded: "I'd tell myself to listen to my heart. Listen to that little voice that says, 'Mmm, I don't think so.' Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.
Glenn Close
#38. That falls into the category of advice that sounds helpful but actually makes no freaking sense.
Shannon Messenger
#39. Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
Barton Gellman
#40. You people realize you're going to visit a person who is clinically insane in order to find out your future, right?' Lexie says. 'I mean, who's crazier, the person who's been put in a mental institution or the person who asks that person for advice?
Bree Despain
#41. Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.
Warren Buffett
#42. If you agree that the person you were few years ago will take advice from the person you are now, you have made a clear progress in life.
Dhaval Gajera
#43. When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.
Willie Nelson
#44. Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I ever hear you talking about is Leo Tolstoy ...
(tr Benjamin Sher)
Leo Tolstoy
#45. People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.
Kevin Smith
#46. To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
John Gray
#47. I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.
Molly Antopol
#48. Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice.
Dee Williams
#49. There is wisdom out there that can't be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won't condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.
Lance Conrad
#50. Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.
Coco Chanel
#51. I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.
Lisa Kleypas
#52. From Monday morning until Saturday night, I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!
Charles Dickens
#53. A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.
Sean Lock
#54. Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.
Martha Beck
#55. You need to begin to network with angels and VCs while you are still ideating. It is easier to ask someone you know for funding than a stranger. Build your financial network by attending as many industry functions and reaching out for advice from experts online.
Jay Samit
#56. All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.
Todd English
#57. I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.
David Byrne
#58. Foulgrin: "If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes." (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)
Randy Alcorn
#59. My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends ... and to return to lasting values.
Gae Aulenti
#60. Advice is nice / On it I've thriven / Not mother's or other's / But what I've given!
Fali S. Nariman
#61. Best advice to writers - Read, write, read, write - repeat!
Lilly Cain
#62. Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#63. I just love kids. As a kid, I grew up in a poor country with a poor family that had nothing. I loved anyone who could come into my life, in from the outside, and give me advice that could help me succeed. I believe that there are a lot of people who came into my life that made me Dikembe Mutombo.
Dikembe Mutombo
#64. We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.
William Hazlitt
#65. It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.
Karl Landsteiner
#66. The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
Protagoras
#67. There is no young creature, my Lord, who so greatly wants, or so earnestly wishes for, the advice and assistance of her friends, as I do: I am new to the world, and unused to acting for myself;-my intentions are never willfully blameable, yet I err perpetually!
Fanny Burney
#68. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. So
Anne Lamott
#69. I don't care how much money you get," my dad used to tell me. "It's not worth it if you're not happy." That's the most valuable piece of advice he ever gave me: Do what you want in life. To this day I've tried to follow that philosophy.
Chris Kyle
#70. As we used to say in the mountains, "Breathe. Breathe again. With every breath, you are alive." After all these years, this still the best advice I can give you: Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.
Nando Parrado
#71. One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
William Shatner
#72. Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#73. Advice, like youth, probably wasted on the young
Mary Schmich
#74. Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.
Wayde Goodall
#75. I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.
Ty Burrell
#76. In a crisis, give help first and then advice.
Aesop
#77. This quote is by my husband, Stephen Dando-Collins It is his advice for success:
1. MARRY LOUISE.
2. DO WHAT SHE TELLS YOU.
3. MAKE SURE THAT SHE IS HAPPY.
Louise Dando-Collins
#78. What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.
Kanye West
#79. 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
#80. My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.
Chloe Sevigny
#81. When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#82. Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.
Conor Maynard
#83. Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton
#84. Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#85. From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm.
Alison Weir
#86. Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade ... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.
Robert D. Arnott
#87. I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
Plautus
#88. The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It's something no astronaut ever gets tired of doing.
Helen Sharman
#89. Although most advice should be distrusted, particularly when it comes from myself ... keep an open mind, Miss Hathaway. One should never look a rich husband in the mouth. - St. Vincent
Lisa Kleypas
#90. 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
#91. Mother was just as glad to have me out of the house and harm's way. She did give me some advice. You can always tell a cult from a religion, she said, because a cult is just a set of rules that lets certain men get laid.
Karen Joy Fowler
#92. I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.
Louis Freeh
#93. Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#94. Meet my future. Her name is Bianca. Come to terms with it. My advice would be to get on her good side.
R.K. Lilley
#95. His supervisor, a well-liked ranger by the name of Dick McLaren, gave Randy a line of advice to which he would adhere for the rest of his career: 'The best way to teach the public isn't with a citation, it's with communication.
Eric Blehm
#96. Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.
Henry David Thoreau
#98. When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.
Bonnie McFarlane
#99. He told m the best advice he could ever give me is all in this book. We need God's constant help and blessings. Both are in the pages of the Bible.
Rebecca DeMarino
#100. Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.
Tonya Hurley
