Advice Quotes

I’m not paralyzed by fear about what might have been or what might be. I’m grateful for what is and I make excellent use of what I’ve got.

~ Linda Gray

You are not listening to a word I am saying . . . and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.

~ Oscar Wilde

Hope is a possibility.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you get older, you know that life’s mysteries are revealed in the fullness of time. All you have to do is wait, watch, and be amazed.

~ Linda Gray

Everything negative, useless, and redundant must go.

~ Linda Gray

If you’ve raced home after working ten-hour days to get dinner on the table every night for twenty years…you deserve more than absolution from guilt and the kindness you’d give freely to anyone else. You deserve a gold medal.

~ Linda Gray

You don’t have to know where you’re going. In fact, it’s better if you don’t.

~ Linda Gray

Love should not have limits but you have to know that our actions have consequences.

~ Stephen D. Matthews

Well…speaking of rights, every single human on the face of this earth is entitled to achieve the basic education; no matter what religion, caste or race they belong to. I’m really against those people who despise the poor. The less fortunate are also normal people like us. In fact, they are special, as they need proper guidance, affection and attention just like us. We should pay them homage and regards rather than looking down upon them. I’m trying my best to support them as much as I can. In fact I’ve opened an orphanage house along with a friend of mine that I was mentioning about before and we’re providing them with the best possible financial services.” He went on.

~ Sara Naveed

We can find peace among ourselves, when we find peace with nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Define yourself. Define your passion.Define your success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to push through every difficulty to achieve the goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Man needs difficult times for reflection and personal growth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Riches are not only measured by money but the wisdom and knowledge you possess.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Carry your candle of light to every dark place.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You should never start something when you haven't finished the last thing. People feel used that way.

~ Jennifer Echols

The failure of the citizens to pray for the country, will lead to its downfall.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibilty of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happines.

~ Morten Høgsberg

On every journey, we experience different cultures and diversity of thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

~ S.a. Tawks

On every journey, we encountered beautiful souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You're better than that.

~ Steve Maraboli

After all, there is no advice which I can give you which you will not find plainly set down in the Book your mother taught you to reverence and love; and I therefore commend you to God, and to the word of His grace.

~ George E. Sargent

If you want my advice, Peter,” he said at last, “you’ve made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don’t you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

~ Ayn Rand

We must conquer the fear to avoid losing the battle.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Please, be sure to display your stickers, so that I won’t misplace any of you. I lost a few people, while crossing the street, during the last tour. I didn’t think it was a big deal, but apparently, the boss frowns upon that sort of thing.

~ Jason Medina

You be wise to stop yo’ negative ways, mister.

~ Jason Medina

If there's anything worse in this world than a bad batch of babi guling, it's hindsight.

~ S.a. Tawks

You are allowed to float around having no damned idea what you want to do with yourself with no actual time frame in which you need to figure it out.

~ Brittany Gibbons

Take a risk on messy. Live Fearlessly. Love recklessly. Most of all, just love.

~ Julie Johnson

That falls into the category of advice that sounds helpful but actually makes no freaking sense.

~ Shannon Messenger

I wanted to give you advice. Adults are always doing that, it's one of their occupational hazards.

~ Maia Wojciechowska

What if you allowed your God to exist in he simple words of compassion others offer you? ... What if the greatest beauty of the day is the shaft of sunlight through our window? What if the worst thing happened and you rose anyway? What if you trusted in the human scale? What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering more than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah? Would you see the miracle in that?

~ Cheryl Strayed

I suggest you forget about forgiveness for now and strive for acceptance instead. Accept that the man you love was unfaithful to you. Accept that the woman you once held in regard treated you with disrespect. Accept that their actions hurt you deeply. Accept that this experience taught you something you didn't want to know. Accept that sorrow and strife are a part of even a joyful life. Accept that it's going to take a long time for you to get that monster out of your chest. Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.

~ Cheryl Strayed

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don't have to justif your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you've got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.

~ Cheryl Strayed

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: ... Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.

~ Cheryl Strayed

Speak kindly to with adult women as you would to your mother.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Saying it's hard is ultimately a justification to do whatever seems like the easiest thing to do -- have the affair, stay at that horrible job, end a friendship over a slight, keep loving someone who treats you terribly.

~ Cheryl Strayed

When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's . . . on morals.

~ Thomas Hardy

We are an inspiration to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita