Advice Quotes - page 3

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true. (Lenny Kravitz)
Advice n. the smallest current coin. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. View quote
Lillian Hellman
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. View quote
Anne Tyler
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. View quote
Wilson Mizner
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. View quote
Agatha Christie
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. View quote
Jane Austen
It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received. (Alexander McCall Smith)
No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do. View quote
Lana Del Rey
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. View quote
Francis Bacon
Don't take advice, be an example. View quote
Jared Leto
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, "tell the truth." If I got three more words, I'd add: "All the time." View quote
Randy Pausch
The best careers advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it." View quote
Katharine Whitehorn
He had only one vanity he thought he could give advice better than any other person. View quote
Mark Twain
I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the advice of their nominee Don't Inhale . View quote
Ronald Reagan
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. View quote
Meg Cabot
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems. (Tim Harford)
A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten. View quote
Brian Selznick
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them. View quote
Bruno Bettelheim
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for. View quote
Jeff Kinney
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. View quote
Jim Harrison