Advice Quotes

The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

~ Nancy Duarte

The worst men often give the best advice.

~ Francis Bacon

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

~ Katharine Whitehorn

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

~ Oscar Wilde

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

~ Agatha Christie

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

~ E. W. Howe

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.

~ Jorge Ramos

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

~ Alexander Fleming

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

~ David Schwimmer

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

~ Anne Sullivan

Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.

~ Robert Kraft

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

~ Aaron Schock

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

~ Ben Horowitz

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

~ Bill Murray

All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.

~ Todd English

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.

~ Sophie Kinsella

The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help.

~ Sandra Tsing Loh

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.

~ J. J. Watt

I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I'm on tour, it really feels like I'm being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having a mom.

~ Amanda Palmer

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

~ John D. Rockefeller

Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

~ Emily Blunt

I don't think I have ever taken any 'offbeat' advice. Actually, I don't know I take any advice very often. I trust my own instincts and seek out information so I can make fully informed decisions. That's what's worked for me.

~ Diane Hendricks

I would suggest that you only take advice from those people who have a lot of experience and who you trust as well. Also, be extremely conservative with your investments.

~ Caroline Wozniacki

I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.

~ Vin Diesel

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

~ Saul Bellow

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

~ Henri Nouwen

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

~ Robert Staughton Lynd

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

~ Erma Bombeck

I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.

~ Ashley Tisdale

The best dating advice I can give is... are you going in it for marriage, or are you going in it for just a date? You've got to be open about it right away, because the other person could be in it for marriage, but you're not.

~ Kendra Wilkinson

I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.

~ Ginnifer Goodwin

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

~ Moshe Dayan

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

~ Arthur Helps

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

~ Galileo Galilei

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

~ John Steinbeck

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

~ Thornton Wilder