Advice Quotes - Page 20

• My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

  Estelle Winwood

  Stars, Worry, Unhappy

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• Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, 4th Of July, Thee

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.287, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Anger

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• Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

  Ben Silbermann

  Business, Thinking, Giving

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• Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Happiness, Giving, People

  Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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• When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

  Anatole Broyard

  Friendship, Being Sad, Radiance

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• Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

  Leo Durocher

  Motivational, Teamwork, Sports

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• If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.717, Ravenio Books

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• Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

  Babe Ruth

  Motivational, Baseball, Something New

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• I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

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• My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Important, Trying

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• To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Country, Men, Land

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• All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humility, Way, Speak

  Michel de Montaigne (2009). “Essays”, p.1603, The Floating Press

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• These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

  Confucius

  Humility, Order, Ideas

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• When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Giving, Treats

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• I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Events, Realistic, Said

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• Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, 'You don't need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.'

  Mayim Bialik

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

  Harry Secombe

  Loss, Dieting, Funny Diet

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• Never take advice from someone you wouldn't trade places with.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Self Esteem, Trade, Esteem

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• No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.

  John B. Jervis

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

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• The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.

  Tony Lema

  Golf, Giving, Water

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• If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Jesus, Christ

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Want, Consumerism

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.402

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• I'm urgin all daughters to kiss their mothers with those lips that all that lipstick covers. You never too grown up to miss and hug her.

  Drake

  Daughter, Mother, Humble

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• Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

  Drake

  Humble, Asking For Forgiveness, Permission

  Song: The Calm, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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