Advice Quotes

I said, I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion. And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, Ingrid, fake it! Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, Ingrid, fake it! It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.

~ Ingrid Bergman

For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.

~ Cheryl Cory

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

~ Connie Brockway

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does notfear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any commonprizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight thething that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergymanwho gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on hisdeath-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I cangive you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strikeupwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

~ Don Delillo

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

~ Connie Brockway

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

~ John C. Maxwell

Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

And all of the scientific data, statistical facts and empirical evidence can't compete with the indefinable heart's desire. For if in the end, she loves you, and she chooses you…none of the rest of this will matter.

~ Ruth Clampett

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

~ Russell T. Davies

Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It’s as ludicrous as saying, “I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor.” Either pick it up or don’t. I don’t want to hear about how your diaper’s full. Take it off or stop talking about it.

~ Chuck Wendig

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

~ Cassandra Clare

Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

~ Neil Gaiman

Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

~ Teresa Mummert

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.

~ Mary Schmich

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Do whatever you want. Break stuff, touch your penis or boobs to anything, whatever.

~ Eugene Mirman

I admonish Your Majesty, as the woman who gave you life and loves you like no other, to behave always in a manner that safeguards your immortal soul. Seek God's glory in the Holy Land rather than your own, that I may see you in heaven if never again in France.

~ Sophie Perinot

Over the years I've received thousands of e-mails looking for guidance. Some have real problems, some talk about monkeys and poo--though those people may also have real problems.

~ Eugene Mirman

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

~ Anselm Feurbah

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Perhaps you should put your head down.” I knew this was the thing to do, although I’ve never fainted and I don’t intend to.

~ Franny Billingsley

Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.

~ Tim Cowlishaw

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children. -Diana

~ Kate Petrella

No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.And give up verse, my boy,There's nothing in it.Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:Don't kick against the pricks,Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your gameAnd died, there's nothing in it.

~ Ezra Pound

The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.

~ Basil Wolverton

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates,Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.

~ E.e. Knight

Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it were agreeable, but the activity itself was always unsatisfactory; there was no full assurance that the work was really necessary, and the activity itself, which at first seemed so great, ever lessened and lessened till it vanished. But now...when he began to confine himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer felt any joy at the thought of his activity, he felt confident that his work was necessary, saw that it progressed far better than formerly, and that it was always growing more and more.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can.

~ Louisa May Alcott

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

~ Nicole Krauss

I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs.

~ Michael Mcclung

If you have to hit--hit low.

~ Tamora Pierce

Advice is a form of Nostalgia

~ Mary Schmich

If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.

~ Connie Brockway

If things are really overwhelming and you need to talk, you can give me a call at 347-273-2044.

~ Eugene Mirman

The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

~ Connie Brockway

If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.

~ Alan Rogers

Light tomorrow with today.

~ George Barnard Moore

There's an ad for every vice. That's advice.

~ Brian Spellman