Advice Quotes

A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failu...

Advice is like snow the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into t...

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

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alik...

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Ta...

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straig...

I like to think of this little [newspaper] column as a brassière, or do I mean brasserie? Brazier, p...

I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one qu...

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was ...

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begi...

... good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.

So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of...

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not ...

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeplyMust take great care they do not, Paddle too ...

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a promine...

Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Reg...

How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag...

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These i...

If you have to hit--hit low.

It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late...

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Wi...

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the ...

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the co...

Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never ...

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it p...

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet an...

Be happy without picking flaws.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the...

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with i...

Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his i...

Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on...

You cannot write unless you write much.

I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows t...

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony ...

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be fre...

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most peopl...

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the y...

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the y...

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a ma...

The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach ...

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. Yo...

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play t...

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what...

Then you must tell them that love isn't something like a grindstone that's the same thing everywhere...

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them b...

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

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless yo...

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I...

When people ask for advice they very rarely want your advice and will go ahead and do what they want...

It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.

Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.

After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past,...

Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other peopl...

I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I ne...

Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.

You will never climb Career Mountain and get to the top and shout, ‘I made it!’ You will rarely feel...

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are ma...

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are m...

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who...

But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at ...

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell the...

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing ...

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been...

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch...

Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the ...

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel for it does not easily deface their own ...

I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share...

If you want my advice, Peter,” he said at last, “you’ve made a mistake already. By asking me. By ask...

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense

For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.

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

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight....what instruction he should give his fift...