Top 1200 Great Advice Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The motto of my life is, 'The best advice is no advice at all.'

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

My advice to myself would be I should probably listen to advice.

My advice would be the same advice that I gave President [George W.] Bush when he won in '04, and, kind of, wasn't followed. I think you go with the things you know you can pass.

Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.

My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.

If I didn't play well, Dad was the first one to tell me where I'd gone wrong and give great advice.

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

Someone gave me great advice. That when you're looked on as a pioneer, or you start a trend, you're not always going to benefit from it.

My sincere advice to any citizen considering moving to the United States and crossing our boundaries in irregular migration, my best advice is to not do it.

Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.

I get a lot of advice from my dad about how I should be as a human being, but as an actor, I think he'll give me advice once I'm doing a film for him.

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

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

I don't do talk shows or go on Dr. Phil's show. He's a friend of mine, and, no, he doesn't give me any advice. He doesn't give solicited advice.

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

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?

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. I think that's what helps the advice sink in. If somebody comes at you with both barrels, the first shot opens your head, and the second shot allows the advice to get lodged inside.

I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.

Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.

I find that a lot of people don't take the advice they're given. But I would do what they suggested, and then follow up with them and say: "Hey, thanks so much. Here's what I did. It worked out great." Now what happens? They feel pretty good about giving you the advice because they had a positive impact. So when I reach out to them again, they're more likely to actually respond to my e-mail or my call. And then they might be more willing to have coffee with me.

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves

I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.

Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be hard pressed to decide what I enjoyed more: the richly and ominously magical world of Malaz and Genabackis; the large cast of sympathetically-rendered characters; or the way the story accumulates to a climax that hits like machinegun fire. My advice to anyone who might listen to me is, Treat yourself to Gardens of the Moon. And my entirely selfish advice to Steven Erikson is, write faster.

Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.

If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.

When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.

Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As an aside, it is now amazing to me how much of the advice from my elders in those days has not come true. I have not gone blind or deaf, despite some early teen advice to the contrary. The only time I was ever involved in a car accident, I was taken to hospital, but no one seemed to take the slightest bit of notice as to whether I had on clean underwear or not. I have, as yet, been unable to test the nymph and heaven advice.)

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

The best advice I can give a girl is to keep new relationships private. There is nothing like a handful of well-intentioned 'girlfriend advice' to derail a blooming romance.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this advice can be introduced into my golfing routine.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

I can give great advice but sometimes I also find it difficult to follow it.

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men

I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.

A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better.

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.