Advice Quotes

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~ Jonathan Maberry

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

~ Robert Ludlum

Drama, can never outrun, outweigh, or outlast Dreams.Dreams, always has hope cheering it on.And Victory, is always waiting at the finish line.

~ Keith Hammond

Fight for your life, it's the only one you've go

~ T.a.z

Dear Abby has had her day, now it's my turn!

~ Barbara Cutie Cooper

Again, keep everything.

~ Nedra Reynolds

...write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and no one can stop you.

~ Mindy Kaling

If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.

~ C. Joybell C.

Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain.It's yours. It's all yours for taking!You're not going to waste it now, are you?

~ James Patterson

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

~ Dick Gregory

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

~ Tyler Perry

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

~ Tyler Perry

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12)

~ Teacher David Mccullough

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

~ Barry Lyga

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.

~ Lee Jampolsky

He turned to Edwin. You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center.Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick.

~ Ben Mikaelsen

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

~ Idries Shah

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.

~ Tom Winton

Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You’re going to tell these honest, earnest writers: You gotta have faith? Those are George Michael lyrics, asshole. If they wanted that pep talk, they could just hang out inside a mall elevator.

~ Karen Russell

...[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.

~ Melissa Kantor

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

~ Terri Windling

The lady who works in the grocery store at the corner of my block is called Denise, and she's one of America's great unpublished novelists. Over the years she's written forty-two romantic novels, none of which have ever reached the bookstores. I, however, have been fortunate enough to hear the plots of the last twenty-seven of these recounted in installments by the authoress herself every time I drop by the store for a jar of coffee or can of beans, and my respect for Denise's literary prowess knows no bounds. So, naturally enough, when I found myself faced with the daunting task of actually starting the book you now hold in your hands, it was Denise I turned to for advice.

~ Dave Gibbons

Don't let anyone take your power by influencing what you do.... sure ask for advice when you are still deciding, but once you are sure what you want to go for, don't let anyone deflect you. It is YOUR choice to make and to follow through.

~ Jay Woodman

...avoid – like the measles – phony laughter. No, really. If you don’t find it to be funny, don't laugh. More evil and injustice has gotten a foothold in this world because of polite, counterfeit laughter – a desire to not “offend”, or to not be “peculiar” - than anything else.But when you do laugh, let your belly shimmy.

~ Jenna Brooks

Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive.

~ Roland Barthes

There are worse things than being robbed... I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. ...worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.

~ Neal Shusterman

I have many dead people who talk to me, whisper advice into my ears in the finest of moments. I take their advice in the moments where life shouldn't allow you to make your own business. This is one of those moments. The dead whisperer, Eleanor Roosevelt. The advice, Do one thing every day that scares you. Here goes!

~ Cyndi Goodgame

You don’t have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked… very much… and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.

~ Kristen Ashley

You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first.

~ Teresa Mummert

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

~ Eloisa James

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

~ Thomas Pynchon

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

~ Winston Churchill

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.

~ Teresa Mummert

Love comes from the heart, lust comes ...lower

~ Teresa Mummert

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

~ Teresa Mummert

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

~ Basil Bunting

Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.

~ Alice Mccall

You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you're just moralizing, demonstrating your hypothetical superiority when it comes to doing the right thing. That's not very fucking helpful, you know. I'm holding my shit together right now, and rather than telling me that it's not enough, you could try to help me with the stuff I'm capable of.

~ Cory Doctorow

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

~ William Faulkner