Advice quotes
Advice quotes by Jim Rohn
Also about
Inspiration, Motivation, Difficulties, Books, Education, Reading, Work, Personality, Practice, Communication
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Advice quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Also about
Life, Inspiration, Mood, Self, Simplicity
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
Advice quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
Also about
Bravery, Criticism, Choice, Mistakes, Control, Boredom
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes".
You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
Advice quotes by Ernest Hemingway
Also about
Art, Devotion, Experience
Advice quotes by Dante Alighieri
Also about
Fate
Advice quotes by Victor Hugo
Also about
Experience, Self-determination, Integrity, Self, Aim, Vocation, Laughter, Suffering
Advice quotes by Stephen Covey
Also about
Aim, Change
Advice quotes by Anonymous
Also about
Collaboration, Synergy, Inspiration, Life, Change, Attitude, Argues
Advice quotes by Stephen King
Also about
Books, Writing, Inspiration, Motivation, Failure, Friendship, Relationships, Thanksgiving
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.
Advice quotes by William Shakespeare
Also about
Love, Trust, Wisdom, Silence
Advice quotes by Charles Dickens
Also about
Inspiration, Optimism, Truth, Delusion, Appearance
Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet'.
Carlos Castaneda
(also about
Life, Death)
Advice quotes by Bob Marley
Also about
Inspiration, Life, Wisdom, Altruism, Service, Truth, Children, Breeding
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again. Tell the children the truth.
Live for others, and you will live again. Tell the children the truth.
Advice quotes by Paulo Coelho
Also about
Inspiration, Life, Experience, Wine, Risk, Failure, Skepticism, Judgement, Heart, Mind
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.
Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.
Advice quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Also about
Inspiration, Wisdom, Health, Habits, Time Management, Failure, Mistakes, Marriage, Friendship, Hobby
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Beware the hobby that eats.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Observe all men, thyself most.
Advice quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda
Also about
Reading, God, Meditation, Inspiration, Love, Virtue, Courage, Conscience, Mind, Integrity
Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.
Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.
Chuck Palahniuk
(also about
Life)
Advice quotes by Olivier Martinez
Also about
Professionalism, Life, Happiness
Advice quotes by Richard Branson
Also about
Leadership, Inspiration, Smile, Business, Understanding, Listening, Decisions, Responsibility
You shouldn't blindly accept a leader's advice. You've got to question leaders on occasion.
Spend more time smiling tham frowning and more time praising than criticising.
If you run a business, put on top your employees, than your consumers, and then your shareholders.
Listen – it makes you sound smarter.
Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, 'OK, fine. You're the boss!' What irks me is that in 90% of such instances what that person is really saying is, 'OK, then, I don't agree with you, but I'll roll over and do it because you're telling me to. But if it doesn't work out I'll be the first to remind everyone that it wasn't my idea.
Advice quotes by Oprah Winfrey
Also about
Decisions, Self-esteem, Image, Self-Expression, Inspiration, Attention, Thinking, Meditation, Love, Dignity
Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
Keep your heels, head and standards high.
Remember:
Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken)
Forgive quickly, kiss slowly
Love truly, laugh uncontrollably
And never regret anything that makes you smile.
The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom)
Don't sweat the small stuff,
You are who you are meant to be,
Dance as if no one's watching,
Love as if it's all you know,
Dream as if you'll live forever,
Live as if you'll die today. James Dean
Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken)
Forgive quickly, kiss slowly
Love truly, laugh uncontrollably
And never regret anything that makes you smile.
The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom)
Don't sweat the small stuff,
You are who you are meant to be,
Dance as if no one's watching,
Love as if it's all you know,
Dream as if you'll live forever,
Live as if you'll die today. James Dean
(also about
Life)
Advice quotes by Roald Dahl
Also about
Children, Parenthood, Books, Reading, Television, Breeding, Truth, Memories, Honesty, Sincerity
I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and deserves - is a parent who is sparky!
The most important thing we’ve learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, never, never let
Them near your television set -
Or better still, just don’t install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we’ve been,
We’ve watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone’s place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they’re hypnotised by it,
Until they’re absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don’t climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink –
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exacts what
This does to your beloved tot?
It rots the senses in the head!
It kills imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind
He can no longer understand
A fantasy, a fairyland!
His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
He cannot think - he only sees!
"All right!" you’ll cry. "All right!" you’ll say,
"But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children! Please explain!"
We’ll answer this by asking you,
"What used the darling ones to do?
How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?"
Have you forgotten? Don’t you know?
We’ll say it very loud and slow:
They... used... to... read! They’d read and read,
And read, and read, and then proceed
To read some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it’s Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and –
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr Toad, and bless my soul,
There’s Mr Rat and Mr Mole –
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The streams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks –
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They’ll now begin to feel the need
Of having something good to read.
And once they start – oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They’ll grow so keen
They’ll wonder what they’d ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did. When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, never, never let
Them near your television set -
Or better still, just don’t install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we’ve been,
We’ve watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone’s place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they’re hypnotised by it,
Until they’re absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don’t climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink –
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exacts what
This does to your beloved tot?
It rots the senses in the head!
It kills imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind
He can no longer understand
A fantasy, a fairyland!
His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
He cannot think - he only sees!
"All right!" you’ll cry. "All right!" you’ll say,
"But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children! Please explain!"
We’ll answer this by asking you,
"What used the darling ones to do?
How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?"
Have you forgotten? Don’t you know?
We’ll say it very loud and slow:
They... used... to... read! They’d read and read,
And read, and read, and then proceed
To read some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it’s Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and –
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr Toad, and bless my soul,
There’s Mr Rat and Mr Mole –
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The streams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks –
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They’ll now begin to feel the need
Of having something good to read.
And once they start – oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They’ll grow so keen
They’ll wonder what they’d ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did. When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
Advice quotes by William Blake
Also about
Wisdom, Inspiration, Understanding, Bible, Reading
Advice quotes by Jack Kerouac
Also about
Writing, Inspiration, Life, Self-Expression, Details, Trust, Soul
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.
Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
Advice quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
Also about
Writing, Inspiration, Happiness, Love, Sex, Opportunity, Morality, Art, Ideas, Illusion
Here is a lesson in creative writing.
First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is". And yet another moral occurs to me now: make love when you can.
It's good for you. Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is". And yet another moral occurs to me now: make love when you can.
It's good for you. Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
Advice quotes by John Steinbeck
Also about
Poverty, Help, Trouble, Wisdom, Approval, Life, Lifesense, Death, Choice, Flattery
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
Advice quotes by William S. Burroughs
Also about
Reality, Writers, Religion, Business, Cheat, Partnership, Relationships, Communication
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you".
Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit - not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
Advice quotes by William Faulkner
Also about
Inspiration, Truth, Compassion, Courage, Honesty, Nobility, Women, Compliment, Words, Discernment
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
Don't be "a writer".
Be writing. I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
Be writing. I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
Advice quotes by Gustave Flaubert
Also about
Work, Vocation, Originality, Consolation, Reading, Public, Mediocrity
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?