Good Advice Quotes - Page 4

• The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding myth which states need - but which they should move on from after a time. Major John MacBride, in a cameo performance in which he left Jacobs Mill, as he had entered it, immaculately dressed down to the white spats, told his colleagues Next time lads, don't shut yourself up behind four walls. It was good advice.

  Maurice Hayes

  Wall, Moving, White

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• Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Advice, Way, Good Living

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• If your best friend's feeling tearful,
  Try not to be too cheerful.
  Just let her fill your ear full
  Of sad tales by the score.
  And when she is through,
  She'll feel as good as.

  Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

  Friendship, Blue, Advice

  "Week in the Life of Best Friends".

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• The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.

  James Keller

  Love, New York, Children

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• Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.

  Jules Feiffer

  Crush, Advice, Patterns

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• Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Giving, Advice

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Dangerous Summer”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

  Axel Munthe

  Book, Men, Long

  Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”

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• Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

  King Edward VIII

  Opportunity, Two, Feet

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• The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Advice, Trouble, Plans

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• The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.

  Joanna Hoffman

  Dreamer, May, Truth Is

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• "Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.

  Harriet Monroe

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Years, Play

  Source: www.sportsnet.ca

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• 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.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Advice, Use

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day.

  Heber J. Grant

  Life, Advice, Lord

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• Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Progress, Quality

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• We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reading, Writing, Advice

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• Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

  Rick Warren

  People, Perspective, Creative

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• When I had all the answers, the questions changed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Advice, Answers, Changed

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• Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

  Rick Warren

  Jealousy, Water, Advice

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 16, 2013

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• Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

  Rick Warren

  Choices, Advice, Choose Wisely

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 16, 2013

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• Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

  Rick Warren

  People, Accountability, Advice

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 14, 2013

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• What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.

  Rick Warren

  Advice, Determined, Popularity

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• Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

  Rick Warren

  Advice, Risk, Age

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 11, 2013

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• Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Giving, Advice

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• For me, as far as skin, I'm a big advocate of facials. And I moisturize. And I read my magazines. I listen to good advice from people who really know, and I try to watch what I eat.

  Eva Longoria

  People, Advice, Skins

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