Best 3604 quotes in «advice quotes» category

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice!

Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.

Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip gloss in.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.

To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just -- to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

Treat a woman how you'd want someone to treat your mom.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.

Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

Um, Faythe?” Marc reached for my arm, and a small grin turned up one corner of his beautiful mouth. “As my first official piece of advice to the new Alpha, let me suggest that you put on some pants. And maybe a shirt.” His grin grew and pulled me closer to whisper in my ear, while Jace watched us stiffly from across the room. “While the look definitely works for me, I’m thinking the other Alphas might take you more seriously if you dress the part.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have an internal North Star. It’s that little nudge that tells us if we are on the right path to fulfilling our potential, or on the wrong path wasting energy traveling somewhere we don’t need to go. So my advice to you is, pull out that compass every once in a while and make sure you are navigating in the right direction on your journey.

Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.

Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.