Worst Advice Quotes

#1. The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

Stephen King

#2. Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

J.B. Priestley

#3. No matter what it is that you want to do, you should dream as big as you can and go for it. Don't let anyone tell you that it can't be done because that's the worst advice. Do whatever you want to do and hard work will make it pay off.

Logan Henderson

#4. I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker ... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.

Vin Diesel

#5. The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

Dimebag Darrell

#6. People give the worst advice about lost things. Retrace your steps. Pray to Saint Anthony. Think about where you last saw it. But that doesn't apply to the things that matter. Those are right in front of you, except they can't be found by looking for them. Only by looking at everything else.

Kristen Lepionka

#7. The worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.'

Patty Sheehan

#8. The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

Joe Haldeman

#9. Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.

Alain De Botton

#10. Have you ever had a "worst mom ever" day? Take heart, so have we all. Take my friend's advice. Apologize to your children. Ask God for forgiveness. Get over it and stop letting Satan drag you down. Spend time with the Lord getting a new attitude, and He'll help you leave the dams to the beavers!

Lysa TerKeurst

#11. If you don't eat well and sleep well, you can't function well. You can't love well, not communicate well. Worst of all You will see things that doesn't exist. so take my advice and follow your mom.

Nikhil Yadav

#12. Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.

Eliza Green

#13. I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry.

Wayne White

#14. Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Matthew Henry

#15. The worst men often give the best advice.

Francis Bacon

#16. Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Alexander Pope

#17. I knew from experience that if you're about to do something you probably shouldn't do, the best advice you can give yourself is not to think about it too long. It ruins the surprise when the worst happens.

James Anderson

#18. You won't find someone who treats you as you should be treated until you start to believe you are worth the ones you want, the ones who aren't asking you to do any work. Find the man who appreciates you at your best, not one who confirms your worst suspicions about yourself.

Mhairi McFarlane

#19. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

Peter Block

#21. The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'

Clive Owen

#22. The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.

David B. Coe

#23. It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

Maya Angelou

#24. Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

Marcel Proust

#25. A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Hesiod

#26. A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better.

Richard Hugo

#27. The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!

Amanda Schull

#28. My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don't think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice

Catrina Burgess

#29. A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap ... I was just in the right place at the right time.

Alexis Bledel

#30. You can never take anything personally. Just a story. It's not their fault they want to kick you and it's certainly not yours. It's just the way things are. Sometimes you need to hear the worst, so you have no fear in what you do and learn to work around the what-have-you.

Initially NO

#31. Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice.

Mod Sun

#32. At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.

Karen Salmansohn