Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Good Advice
Quotations & Citations:
What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
~ Maya Angelou
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
~ Maya Angelou
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
~ Erica Jong
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
~ Francis Bacon, The Advancement Of Learning
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
~ Will Rogers
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
Here’s some advice. Stay alive.
~ Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.
~ Bill Cosby
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
~ William Shakespeare
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida
When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.
~ Charles Varlet de La Grange
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
~ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
~ Solon
I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.
~ Robert Michaels MD
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
~ John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
~ Robert Frost
Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.
~ Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.
~ Edward Abbey
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~ Cicero
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
~ Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
~ Steven Brust, Jhereg
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
~ Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
~ Louis C.K.
My advice for a person who’s just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms…faster.
~ Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
~ Bruce Lee
Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
~ William Martin, The Parent’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I don’t think anyone can give you advice when you’ve got a broken heart.
~ Britney Spears
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.
~ Steve Jobs
Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
~ Wendell Berry
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
~ John Boyle O’Reilly, Life of John Boyle O’Reilly
One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said “Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock…
~ Johnny Depp
The best way to predict your future is to create it
~ Abraham Lincoln
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
~ Wendell Johnson
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!
~ Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father’s Advice to His Son
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
~ Erica Jong
Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Self-consciousness kills communication.
~ Rick Steves
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
~ Anne Tyler
It’s easy to look back and see it, and it’s easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don’t look beneath the surface until it’s too late.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
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, Wings
If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.
~ Jules Renard
I always advise people never to give advice.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.
~ Valencia Mackie
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
~ Neil Gaiman
I wish the masses of people would all follow my advice, because I’d throw it off a cliff.
~ Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they’ll tell you will be wrong.
~ Michael Crichton, The Lost World
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack
This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to realize it’s going to be a
long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.
~ Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.
~ Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic
My mother always said ‘Don’t bother other people.’ I think that’s good advice.
~ Amy Sedaris
Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
On your birthday you should throw me a party. This is my advice for everybody, especially my clones.
~ Jarod Kintz, $3.33