Advice Quotes

Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.

~ Dale Carnegie

Advice is bullshit. It's just one asshole's opinion.

~ Justin Halpern

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.

~ Anne Brontë

But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. The choice is yours: to go or wait.''And it is also said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.''Is it indeed?' laughed Gildor. 'Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.

~ Liam Perrin

BE CAREFUL, OR BE ROADKILL!

~ Bill Watterson

Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.

~ Christopher Paolini

... I will say this. Marriage is work. It's hard work. Harder than anything else you'll ever do. Believe me, I know. And do you want to know why?' James nodded and Ben Latrobe leaned forward as if to impart a deep, mysterious secret. 'Because marriage isn't about the wedding or the wedding trip afterward. It isn't about cozy nights spent in each other's arms or the way she makes you feel when she smiles. Oh, those things all have a part in it, but a very minor one. No, James, marriage is about sticking it out when it isn't so nice. Marriage is being there to pick up the pieces when your perfect world falls apart. It's seeing the mess you've made of things and being willing to work through it until you have created something better than you had before. It's listening to her fears, her troubles, and concerns. It's eating meals that don't taste as good as those your mother fixed, enduring her temperamental outburts and tears, and not giving up when things get hard.' Latrobe paused for a moment and a frown lined his face where the smile had been only moments before. 'True love is standing by your mate when his health fails, along with his business.' ... 'It's knowing that the world goes on and you can depend on each other even when everything else around you lies in ruins at your feet...

~ Judith Pella

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.

~ Jean Ferris

Merrill Krause - My brothers have scared off just about any fellow who showed interest in getting to know me.Granny Lassiter - Well, if a man can't stand up to those brothers of yours, you needn't even consider him. A man ought to be able to hold his own with his wife's family.

~ Tracie Peterson

Merrill Krause - You mentioned God's will for me. How will I know what that is, Father?Bogart Krause - I've always believed it to start with prayer. The Good Book says that if a man wants wisdom, he just has to ask. I would imagine it works the same way for womenfolk. If you want to know what God's plan is -- then I would ask Him. Couldn't hurt to search the Scriptures, too. And listen to what He is telling you inside. Even when you don't think you're hearing anything, keep listening.

~ Tracie Peterson

It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

~ Tibor Fischer

Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.

~ Liam Perrin

When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival.

~ John-Talmage Mathis

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom... & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.

~ David Mitchell

You can't always be by the people you love you have to let them live their own life.

~ Brynlee

The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal.

~ John-Talmage Mathis

Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . .trump the need to preserve your credit score, orpurchase a new gizmo.

~ John-Talmage Mathis

He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to be was just asking for it.

~ Liam Perrin

Love for one another is built on the actions we take. Words that are said, are used for short comfort; but little do we know lies can be hidden in the riddle. Tread carefully through the puddle of roses for there, thorns await.

~ Ochir Napoleoni

Preparation:allows you to prevent . . .the intensity of the ordeal.

~ John-Talmage Mathis

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

~ Brandon Mull

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

~ Steven Pressfield

For every evil under the sun,There is a remedy, or there is none.If there be one, try and find it;If there be none, never mind it.

~ Mother Goose Rhymes

Do notforget duty. But choose love when you can.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

Don't settle for being an option, become a priority.

~ Matt Mitchell

Do not be afraid. Look fear in the face and say, fuck you and move on.

~ Annie Brewer

There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

~ Ellen Degeneres

I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows himself? Heaven knows. I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

He who aims too high will get a sore neck

~ Michelle Cohen Corasanti

It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If you're bored, you're boring.

~ Barbara Cutie Cooper

It's when you stop planning every last detail that you discover the fun in life.

~ Joanne Clancy

Sweetie,” Dino said, coming over to put his arm around her shoulder. He tipped her head up and looked into her eyes with great empathy. “You can’t fuck a statue. At least not at that angle. You’d at least have to tip it onto its back first, and as a conservator, I can’t recommend it.

~ Rosanna Leo

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.

~ Alain De Botton

Paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly. Because he pays close attention, a Navy pilot can land a 40,000 lb. aircraft at 140 miles per hour on a pitching carrier deck, at night, more safely than the average teenager can cut a bagel.

~ Paul Graham

If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion.

~ Roberto Bolaño

Life is about the people we meet, and the experiences we have along the way.

~ Joanne Clancy

Be focused in what you do and what you say. There is much noise in the world to detrack you.

~ Moazzam Shaikh