Good Advice Quotes

• She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

  Lewis Carroll

  Happiness, Sweet, Advice

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

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• Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

  Agatha Christie

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother And Daughter

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• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Mistake, Learning, Advice

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

  Dee Hock

  Motivational, Integrity, Knowledge

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• It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

  David Hockney

  Fake People, Work, Believe

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Advice, Criticism

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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

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• Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

  Cory Booker

  Inspirational, Kindness, Small Acts

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Sep 14, 2012

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• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Strength, Stay Strong, Motivational Sports

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• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Being Strong, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

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• Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inability To Love, Giving, People

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• There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

  Joseph Addison

  Advice, Literature, Reluctance

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.208

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

  George Crabbe

  Son, Advice, Be Good

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.245

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• I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Jobs, Business, People

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• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Bad Ass, Giving, Advice

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

  Gene Brown

  Long, Advice, Grace

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• Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Smart, Gambling, Advice

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wise, Wisdom, Brother

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