Top 100 Self Advice Quotes
#1. What is your intention as you begin dating? Are you hoping to enter into another serious relationship right away? Exclusive or Open? Companion? Friend with benefits? You define this. Don't let someone else define this for you.
Staci Bartley
#3. If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#4. Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.
James Cook
#5. To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy.
T.A. Miles
#7. Relationships take skill, not perfection or luck!
Staci Bartley
#11. Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white.
April Mae Monterrosa
#12. Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.
Jennifer Elisabeth
#13. Being giving is a big quality. Being too giving is a big mistake!
Rossana Condoleo
#14. I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well!
Stjepan Sejic
#16. Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?
Joshua E. Leyenhorst
#19. Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.
Tim Cowlishaw
#21. The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try.
Rob Liano
#24. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
#26. It doesn't matter what others think. This is about YOU. Create a life that you genuinely love with your whole heart & start with yourself.
Brittany Burgunder
#27. Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is.
Angelo M. Swinson
#33. The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you're sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
Guy Kawasaki
#34. My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."
Denise Duhamel
#35. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
#36. Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life." (Wellesly High School commencement speech, "You Are Not Special", 6-12)
Teacher David McCullough
#37. I don't believe in that term 'self-made' - not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it's one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you're at today.
Michelle Phan
#38. Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.
Liam Perrin
#39. The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
Nikki Giovanni
#40. The truth, Ms Rainn, is that advice and inspirational quotes and sayings may give you a kick start, but it's up to you to keep that motivation alive.
S.A. Tawks
#43. Wherever you are lacking, your obedience in working on that before your mate comes is vital.
Angelo M. Swinson
#44. Relationships abhor a vacuum. Whenever one person refuses to mark and fight for their territory the other person will occupy the treasured ground either by default or by committing an act of aggression.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#45. Everyone isn't going to embrace your value, but that doesn't mean you need to go and change your price.
Stephan Labossiere
#47. Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need.
Craig Mercier
#48. Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind.
Rossana Condoleo
#50. A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.
Evan Thomas
#51. "Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.
Harriet Monroe
#54. To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)
Steven Heighton
#55. Once you start laughing, you start healing.
Sherry Argov
#56. Be generous, kind and compassionate. These are true characteristics of successful people.
Archie Lee
#59. The only thing that comes to those who wait is leftovers.
Danny Stone
#62. The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don't stop!
Noel DeJesus
#64. You need a companion for your thought process, than a physical relationship.
Rajasaraswathii
#66. Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines ... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.
Wojciech Kurtyka
#67. Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an' lose yo'self in it.
Jason Medina
#68. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Theodore Parker
#69. No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is still just a man.
Rebecca Warner
#70. We are the visionaries, inventors, and artists. We think differently, see the world differently, and solve problems differently. It is from this difference that the dyslexic brain derives its brilliance.
Tiffany Sunday
#71. 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
#72. I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no fan of beings that try to sound wise, while trying to mask their imbecility.
Lionel Suggs
#74. Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me."
As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.
Maggie Nelson
#76. Once, if you told people you were self-published, they'd look at you like you were a smelly old jobless hobo just come off a dusty boxcar with soupcan shoes and a hat made from a coyote skull.
Chuck Wendig
#77. If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.
C. JoyBell C.
#78. If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your 21 y/o self? Answer: Think about your actions. They have consequences.
Claire Contreras
#79. Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
Auliq Ice
#81. Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do.
Paul Samuelson
#83. The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?
John Green
#84. It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#86. If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy lifestyle, especially when you are starting out. That being said, it definitely makes it all worth it when it does happen.
Melissa Benoist
#87. Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
Robert Henri
#88. When you think positively, you attract divine forces for a positive lifestyle.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. If you don't look back to self reflect, you're only going to repeat the same mistakes. Those mistakes will continue to show up in your dating lifescape because you haven't learned the lesson they were supposed to teach you.
Jaha Knight
#91. The sexiest advice:
Dear humans, stop role-playing in your lives; these sort of things are meant to be explored only at times you won't mention in public.
Saurabh Sharma
#92. Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like ... it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.
Lights
#94. I'm not paralyzed by fear about what might have been or what might be. I'm grateful for what is and I make excellent use of what I've got.
Linda Gray
#96. Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING.
Mary Mihalic
#97. Blessed are you, who faced many adversities. You will be strengthen and soften.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#98. Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.
Tyler Wagner
#100. If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
Zooey Deschanel
