Advice Quotes

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds.

It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.

Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn't mean we're not going to fight them.

Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.

You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this advice can be introduced into my golfing routine.

Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

Everyone, including 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.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip gloss in.

Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.

Whatever you do, don't smoke.

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.