Advice Quotes

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

~ Mary Wortley Montagu

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

~ Bette Davis

Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.

~ Clive Barker

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you.Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

~ Max Lucado

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

~ Deepak Chopra

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.

~ Adrian Tan

Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody,and from being nobody to being everybody.This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

~ William Shakespeare

I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

~ Melina Marchetta

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

~ Holly Lisle

Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

~ William Shakespeare

Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.

~ Robert Newton Peck

Never take advice from a donkey.

~ Bryce Courtenay

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots! I said keeping my voice down. Will you just put a stopper in it?She looked at me and sighed. Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax.My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine.Granny, I told her, this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.

~ Tamora Pierce

People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.

~ Chris Hankin

Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.

~ Renée Manfredi

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone.-Hobbes

~ Bill Watterson

Most dancers I know, especially the talented and successful ones, seem to possess [my dog's] knack for living moment to moment. You see, their idea of time is related to those infinitely short moments when they are onstage being their superselves.

~ Paul Taylor

You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.

~ Douglas Adams

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

~ Haruki Murakami

Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.

~ Eugene Mirman

It is the thinnest lines that define us.

~ David Macinnis Gill

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that o

~ William Faulkner

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

~ Baltasar Gracián

The Director's Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its birth for clinical reasons, like a doctor or midwife. Your job most of the time is simply to do no harm.When something does go wrong, however, your awareness that something is awry--and your clinical intervention to correct it--can determine whether the child will thrive or suffer, live or die.

~ Frank Hauser

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Never pay attention to someone who has not earned your respect.

~ Habeeb Akande

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

~ Louis L'amour

Never offer advice just to appear concerned.

~ Jack Gardner

Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a person you respect in the field who will be hard on you. Pray for many many many red marks. Fix them. Then put it away for two weeks. Work on something else. Finally, edit one last time. Now you are ready to sub your first work.Criticism is hard to take at first. Trust me, I've been there. But learn to think of crit marks as a knife. Each one is designed to cut away the bad and leave a scar. Scars prove you've lived, learned and walked away a winner. Any writer who tells you they don't need edits is lying. I don't care if they have 100 books out. Edits make you grow and if you aren't growing as a writer, you are dead.

~ Inez Kelley

Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart.

~ Steven Pressfield

It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--in a smelly old cave like this!

~ Douglas Adams

One bullet can really fuck up your day.

~ Mark Haskell Smith

No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.

~ Nick Harkaway

Here's the last thing that occurs to me as Sarah recedes in the rearview mirror, slamming out of the car, jogging across the parking lot: If you're one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.

~ Lauren Oliver

Why do you do that?Do what?Blow off compliments.I don't.You kind of do.Sorry.Don't apologize. Just learn to say thanks.

~ Marisa Reichardt

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.

~ Dennis Lehane

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

~ L.m. Montgomery

In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something that someone said at my first Milford, about using style as a covering, but sooner or later you would have to walk naked down the street, that was useful...And then I remembered. It was Harlan Ellison about a decade ago.He said, Hey. Gaiman. What's with the stubble? Every time I see you, you're stubbly. What is it? Some kind of English fashion statement?Not really.Well? Don't they have razors in England for Chrissakes?If you must know, I don't like shaving because I have a really tough beard and sensitive skin. So by the time I've finished shaving I've usually scraped my face a bit. So I do it as little as possible.Oh. He paused. I've got that too. What you do is, you rub your stubble with hair conditioner. Leave it a couple of minutes, then wash it off. Then shave normally. Makes it really easy to shave. No scraping.I tried it. It works like a charm. Best advice from a writer I've ever received.

~ Neil Gaiman

It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

~ George S. Clason